Speedy
['spiːdɪ] or ['spidi]
Definition
(superl.) Not dilatory or slow; quick; swift; nimble; hasty; rapid in motion or performance; as, a speedy flight; on speedy foot.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Swift, rapid, quick, fleet, hasty, prompt, expeditious, hurried, flying.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Early, quick, rapid, fast, accelerated, prompt, nimble, swift, fleet
ANT:Late, slow, dragging, loitering, lingering, tardy, sluggish
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Examples
- Of all changes, he said, there is none so speedy or so sure as the conversion of the ambitious youth into the avaricious one. Plato. The Republic.
- Probably the chief cause of devotion to rigidity of method is, however, that it seems to promise speedy, accurately measurable, correct results. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Nay, pardon me, he replied; I have no right to command or reproach; but my life hangs on your departure and speedy return. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- There was no promise of a speedy departure in his composed bearing and his comfortable attitude. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- What qualities are there for which a man gets so speedy a return of applause, as those of bodily superiority, activity, and valour? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Almost all these gentlemen were in heart partisans of the Emperor, and had their opinions about the speedy end of the campaign. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But to gather in this great harvest of truth was no light or speedy work. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He was both out of pocket and out of spirits by that catastrophe, failed in his health, and prophesied the speedy ruin of the Empire. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- No man could crush a butterfly on the wheel with better effect; no man better cover a speedy retreat from a powerful adversary. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She is an armored cruiser, and is one of the latest and most speedy of that type. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- That they will become a speedier and cheaper mode of conveyance than carriages drawn by horses. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- This was the speediest way to reinforce Warren who was confronting the enemy on both the Orange plank and turnpike roads. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As the speediest way of getting rid of him, Mr. Luker had at once declared that he had no money. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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