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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | quick in movement |
| Synonyms: | agile, barreling, breakneck, brisk, expeditious, expeditive, fast, flying, hasty, in nothing flat, like greased lightning, lively, mercurial, meteoric, nimble, nimble-footed, on the double, rapid, screaming, speedball, speedy, swift, winged |
| Antonyms: | clumsy, slow |
| Main Entry: | deft |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | agile, clever |
| Synonyms: | able, adept, adroit, apt, crack, cute, dexterous, expert, fleet, handy, having good hands, having know-how, ingenious, neat, nimble, proficient, prompt, quick, ready, skilled, skillful |
| Antonyms: | awkward, clumsy, inept, unhandy, unskillful |
| Main Entry: | expeditious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immediate, speedy |
| Synonyms: | active, alert, breakneck, brisk, diligent, effective, effectual, efficient, fast, fleet, hasty, instant, nimble, prompt, punctual, quick, rapid, ready, swift |
| Antonyms: | pokey, retarded, slow |
| Main Entry: | fast |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | speedy |
| Synonyms: | PDQ, accelerated, active, agile, blue streak, breakneck, brisk, chop-chop, dashing, double-time, electric, expeditious, expeditive, flashing, fleet, fleeting, flying, hairtrigger, hasty, hot, hurried, hypersonic, in a jiffy, in nothing flat, lickety split, like a bat out of hell, like all get out, like crazy, like mad, nimble, on the double, posthaste, presto, pronto, quick, racing, rapid, ready, screamin', snap*, snappy, speedball, supersonic, swift, velocious, winged |
| Antonyms: | plodding, slow, tardy, unhurried |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in the air, winged |
| Synonyms: | aerial, aeronautical, airborne, avian, drifting, express, flapping, fleet, floating, fluttering, gliding, hovering, mercurial, mobile, on the wing, plumed, soaring, speedy, streaming, swooping, volant, volar, volitant, waving, winging, zooming |
| Antonyms: | ground, grounded |
| Main Entry: | hasty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | speedy; without much thought |
| Synonyms: | PDQ, abrupt, agile, brash, breakneck, brief, brisk, careless, chop-chop, cursory, eager, expeditious, fast, fiery, fleet, fleeting, foolhardy, harefooted, headlong, heedless, hurried, ill-advised, impatient, impetuous, impulsive, incautious, inconsiderate, madcap, on the double, passing, perfunctory, precipitate, prompt, pronto, quick, quickened, quickie, rapid, rash, reckless, rushed, short, slambang, slapdash, snappy, sudden, superficial, swift, thoughtless, urgent |
| Antonyms: | delayed, lazy, lingering, loitering, slow |
| Main Entry: | posthaste |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, adverb |
| Definition: | fast |
| Synonyms: | at once, breakneck, directly, double-quick, expeditious, flat-out, fleet, fleetly, full tilt, hastily, hasty, headlong, lickety-split, pell-mell, promptly, pronto, quick, quickly, rapid, rapidly, speedily, speedy, straightaway, swift, swiftly |
| Antonyms: | eventually, slow, slowly |
| Main Entry: | quick |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fast, speedy |
| Synonyms: | ASAP, a move on, abrupt, accelerated, active, agile, alert, animated, breakneck, brief, brisk, cursory, curt, double time, energetic, expeditious, expeditive, express, fleet, flying, going, harefooted, hasty, headlong, hurried, immediate, impatient, impetuous, instantaneous, keen, lively, mercurial, move it, nimble, on the double, perfunctory, posthaste, prompt, pronto, rapid, snappy, spirited, sprightly, spry, sudden, swift, the lead out, winged* |
| Antonyms: | lazy, slow, sluggish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rapid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very quick |
| Synonyms: | accelerated, active, agile, breakneck, brisk, double time, expeditious, expeditive, express, fast, fleet, fleet of foot, flying, hasty, hurried, in nothing flat, light-footed, like a house on fire, lively, mercurial, nimble, on the double, precipitate, prompt, quick as a wink, quickened, ready, really rolling, screaming, speedy, spry, swift, winged |
| Notes: | a turbulent, rock-obstructed river area is rapid(s) and steep rapids make a cataract |
| Antonyms: | languishing, leisurely, slack, slow |
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