Apace
[ə'peɪs] or [ə'pes]
Definition
(adv.) With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. Quickly, speedily, swiftly, rapidly, hastily, post-haste, with speed, with quick pace.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Rapidly, fast, astride, eagerly, ahead, expeditiously, speedily
ANT:Slowly, imperceptibly, leisurely, creepingly, crawlingly, sluggishly, tardily
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Definition
adv. at a quick pace: swiftly: fast: said of the flight of time generally.
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Examples
- He had nothing with him but his boat, and came on apace. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was the last of the regiment's stay in Meryton, and all the young ladies in the neighbourhood were drooping apace. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Thus the demand for the new machines and wax records grew apace as the corporations organized to handle the business extended their lines. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Evening had come apace. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- We grow wise apace. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- As the art of telegraphy grows apace toward the end of the Nineteenth Century, individuality of invention becomes lost in the great maze of modifications, ramifications, and combinations. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The morning is by this time getting on apace. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Morning drew on apace. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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