Synonyms of the word

straightaway

• n. A straight section of a racetrack.
• adv. At once; immediately.
• adj. extending into the distance in a straight line.

directly

• adv. In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.
• adv. In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct means.
• adv. Plainly, without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.
• adv. Exactly; just.
• adv. Straightforwardly; honestly.
• adv. (dated) Immediately.
• adv. (Midland South) Soon; next; when it becomes convenient.
• conj. As soon as.

fast

• adj. (dated) Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable.
• adj. Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
• adj. (of people) Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now only in set phrases like "fast friend".).
• adj. Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid.
• adj. Causing unusual rapidity of play or action.
• adj. (computing, of a piece of hardware) Able to transfer data in a short period of time.
• adj. Deep or sound (of sleep); fast asleep (of people).
• adj. (of dyes or colours) Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or…
• adj. (obsolete) Tenacious; retentive.
• adj. (colloquial) Having an extravagant lifestyle or immoral habits.
• adj. Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
• adj. (of photographic film) More sensitive to light than average.
• adv. In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved.
• adv. (of sleeping) Deeply or soundly.
• adv. Immediately following in place or time; close, very near.
• adv. Quickly, with great speed; within a short time.
• adv. Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
• n. (Britain, rail transport) A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination,…
• interj. (archery) Short for "stand fast", a warning not to pass between the arrow and the target.
• v. (intransitive) To restrict one’s personal consumption, generally of food, but sometimes other things,…
• n. The act or practice of abstaining from food or of eating very little food.
• n. The period of time during which one abstains from or eats very little food.

forthwith

• adv. immediately; without delay.

immediate

• adj. Happening right away, instantly, with no delay.
• adj. Very close; direct or adjacent.
• adj. Manifestly true; requiring no argument.
• adj. (computer science, of an instruction operand) embedded as part of the instruction itself, rather than…
• adj. (procedure word, military) To denote that a transmission is urgent.
• adj. (procedure word, military) An artillery fire mission modifier for to types of fire mission to denote an…

immediately

• adv. In an immediate manner; instantly or without delay.
• conj. Indicates that the dependent clause describes something that occurs immediately after the independent…

instantly

• adv. (archaic) Urgently; with insistence.
• adv. At once; without delay.

now

• adj. Present; current.
• adj. (archaic, law) At the time the will is written. Used in order to prevent any inheritance from being transferred…
• adj. (informal) Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
• adv. At the present time.
• adv. (sentence) Used to introduce a point, a remonstration or a rebuke.
• adv. Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently…
• adv. Differently from the situation before a stated event or change of circumstance.
• adv. At the time reached within a narration.
• adv. In the context of urgency.
• adv. (obsolete) Very recently; not long ago.
• conj. since something is true : because of the fact that something happened.
• conj. since, because, in light of the fact; often with that.
• interj. Indicates a signal to begin.
• n. (uncountable) The present time.
• v. Misspelling of know.

prompt

• adj. (archaic) Ready, willing (to act).
• adj. Quick, acting without delay.
• adj. On time, punctual.
• n. A reminder or cue.
• n. (business, dated) A time limit given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying…
• n. (computing) A symbol that appears on a monitor to indicate that the computer is ready to receive input.
• n. (writing) A suggestion for inspiration given to an author.
• v. (transitive) To lead (someone) toward what they should say or do.
• v. (transitive, theater and television) To show or tell an actor/person the words they should be saying,…
• v. (transitive) To initiate; to cause or lead to.

quick

• adj. Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
• adj. Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
• adj. Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
• adj. Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
• adj. Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
• adj. (archaic) Alive, living.
• adj. (archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive…
• adj. Of water: flowing.
• adj. Burning, flammable, fiery.
• adj. Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
• adj. (mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren.
• adv. quickly.
• adv. (colloquial) with speed.
• n. raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
• n. plants used in making a quickset hedge.
• n. The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
• n. quitchgrass.
• n. (cricket) A fast bowler.
• v. (transitive) To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury…
• v. (transitive, archaic, poetic) To quicken.

section

• n. A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
• n. A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
• n. A part of a document.
• n. An act or instance of cutting.
• n. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
• n. (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
• n. (sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
• n. (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
• n. (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
• n. (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
• n. (category theory) A right inverse.
• n. (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
• n. (Canada) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
• n. (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
• v. To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
• v. (Britain) To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons…
• v. To perform a cesarean section on (someone).

segment

• n. A length of some object.
• n. One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section;…
• n. (mathematics) A portion.
• n. (sciences) A portion.
• n. (broadcasting) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
• n. (computing) An Ethernet bus.
• n. (computing) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular…
• n. (travel) A portion of an itinerary; can be a flight or train between two cities, a car or hotel booked…
• v. To divide into segments or sections.

straight

• adj. Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
• adj. (obsolete, rare) Strait; narrow.
• adj. Figurative uses.
• adj. Colloquial uses.
• adj. (sciences, mathematics) concerning the property allowing the parallel-transport of vectors along a course…
• adv. Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
• adv. Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
• adv. Continuously; without interruption or pause.
• n. Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
• n. (poker) Five cards in sequence.
• n. (colloquial) A heterosexual.
• n. (slang) A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
• n. (slang) A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana. Also straighter.
• v. (transitive) To straighten.