Thesaurus:quickly

Thesaurus
quickly

English

Synonyms
  • apace
  • expeditiously
  • fast
  • hastily
  • hurriedly
  • posthaste
  • quicksome
  • rapidly
  • speedily
  • soon    [⇒ thesaurus]
  • swiftly
  • with dispatch
Colloquial, Archaic, Slang
  • 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
  • like a blue-arsed fly
  • like a dose of salts
  • like a rat up a drainpipe
  • like gangbusters
  • like shit through a goose
  • like the clappers
  • like there is no tomorrow
  • like the wind
  • screaming
  • before you can say Jack Robinson
  • in a flash
  • in a jiffy
  • in no time    [⇒ thesaurus]
  • in the twinkling of an eye
  • in two shakes
  • on the double
  • PDQ
  • pronto
  • quick as a flash
  • quick as a wink
  • on the pdq
  • toot sweet
Antonyms
  • slowly    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

  • speedy    [⇒ thesaurus]
  • drink    [⇒ thesaurus]
  • immediately    [⇒ thesaurus]
  • rush    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

  • “274. velocity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
  • “quickly” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
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