Eventually vs Immediately - What's the difference?
eventually | immediately |
In the end.
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(mathematics, of a sequence) For some tail.
In an immediate manner; instantly or without delay.
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As adverbs the difference between eventually and immediately
is that eventually is in the end while immediately is in an immediate manner; instantly or without delay.As a conjunction immediately is
Indicates that the dependent clause describes something that occurs immediately after the independent clause's referent does.eventually
English
Adverb
(-)- It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
Synonyms
* at last * finally * yet * ultimately * in the endSee also
* frequentlySee also
* sooner or laterimmediately
English
Adverb
(-)- I hope we can begin immediately .
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