future vs immediate

future

adj
  • Having to do with or occurring in the future. 

noun
  • An object that retrieves the value of a promise. 

  • A minor-league prospect. 

  • The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced. 

  • The likely prospects for or fate of someone or something in time to come. 

  • Something that will happen in moments yet to come. 

  • Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense. 

  • Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to. 

immediate

adj
  • Used to denote that a transmission is urgent. 

  • An artillery fire mission modifier for to types of fire mission to denote an immediate need for fire: Immediate smoke, all guns involved must reload smoke and fire. Immediate suppression, all guns involved fire the rounds currently loaded and then switch to high explosive with impact fused (unless fuses are specified). 

  • Manifestly true; requiring no argument. 

  • Very close; direct or adjacent. 

  • Happening right away, instantly, with no delay. 

  • Embedded as part of the instruction itself, rather than stored elsewhere (such as a register or memory location). 

How often have the words future and immediate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )