Mathematicians are like some Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.
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Forthwith
//fɔːθˈwɪð//
Synonyms for "forthwith" (95 found)
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Adverb(11 words)
Adverb(5 words)
Related words (47)
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Synonyms
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1 entriesrelated to
3 entriesTranslations
75 translations across 17 languages.
Ancient Greek
3 entries- εἶθαρ adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- παραχρῆμα adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- ἄφαρ adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
Bulgarian
2 entries- веднага adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- незабавно adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
Dutch
1 entries- terstond adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
French
4 entries- aussitôt adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- de ce pas adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- illico adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- imminemment adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
German
3 entries- sofort adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- umgehend adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- unverzüglich adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
Hungarian
4 entries- azon nyomban adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- azonnal adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- haladéktalanul adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- nyomban adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
Italian
4 entries- all'improvviso adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- all'istante adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- d'improvviso adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- di colpo adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
Latin
4 entries- breviter adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- celer adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- continuō adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- cōnfestim adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
Māori
1 entries- tangetange adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
Norwegian
1 entries- straks adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
Occitan
3 entries- aitanlèu adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- autanlèu adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- immediatament adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- fuaz adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
Polish
4 entries- bezzwłocznie adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- natychmiast adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- natychmiastowo adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- niezwłocznie adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
Portuguese
1 entries- imediatamente adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
Russian
1 entries- неме́дленно adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
Spanish
3 entries- ahora mismo adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- enseguida adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- inmediatamente adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
Swedish
3 entries- genast adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- med en gång adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
- omedelbart adv (without delay — see also immediately, right away)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
As soon as the argument ended, I left the office forthwith.
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Therewith the royal sceptre, which of yore / Ilione, Priam's eldest daughter, bore; / her shining necklace, strung with costly beads, / and diadem, rimmed with gold and studded o'er / with sparkling gems. Thus charged, Achates heeds, / and towards the ships forthwith in eager haste proceeds.
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Awed by the vision and the voice divine / ('twas no mere dream; their very looks I knew, / I saw the fillets round their temples twine, / and clammy sweat did all my limbs bedew) / forthwith, upstarting, from the couch I flew, / and hands and voice together raised in prayer, / and wine unmixt upon the altars threw. / This done, to old Anchises I repair, / pleased with the rites fulfilled, and all the tale declare.
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