Immediate
Immediate adjective - Existing or in progress right now.
Usage example: we need to solve the immediate problems before working on the more long-term ones
Modern and immediate are semantically related in characteristic topic. In some cases you can use "Modern" instead an adjective "Immediate", when it comes to topics like current.
Nearby Words: immediately, immediacy
Modern
Modern adjective - Being or involving the latest methods, concepts, information, or styles.
Immediate and modern are semantically related in characteristic topic. Sometimes you can use "Immediate" instead an adjective "Modern", if it concerns topics such as current.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- InuYasha: Whenever Kagome makes it to school in the modern era, the teachers (or anyone else in the modern era save Kagome's immediate family) seldom have face time.
Source: Two-Teacher School -
Constantine has the titular protagonist travel to Hell that looks like the immediate aftermath of a nuclear strike of modern Los Angeles.
Source: Dark World -
First, the seizure and formal concession of French North America (modern Quebec) effectively removed the immediate security threat France had posed to British America.
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