quickly

Rapidly; with speed; fast; with expedition.

Adverb

  1. Rapidly; with speed; fast; with expedition.
    • Luckily, the error was quickly corrected.

    Synonyms: at speed

  2. Very soon.
    • If we go this way, we'll get there quickly.
    • Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicini's first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboa's snap-shot. Two more top-class stops followed quickly...
    • There are eight principles in all, but three are really important if we want to shift quickly and inclusively toward a longer-term mode of thinking and acting. - 2023 February 2, Patrick Noack, “Humans are terrible at...

Origin

From Middle English quykly, quikliche, quicliche, cwikliche, cwickliche, from Old English cwiculīċe. By surface analysis, quick + -ly.

Forms

quicklier more quickly quickliest most quickly

Synonyms

apace expeditiously fast hastily hurriedly posthaste quicksome rapidly speedily soon swiftly with dispatch at the high port balls-out balls to the wall cranking flat out full throttle hauling hauling ass hell-for-leather hell-bent for leather lickety-split like a bat out of hell

Antonyms

slowly

Related

quick speedy drink immediately rush

Derived

as quickly as possible death-come-quickly