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单词 briefly
释义

briefly

adverb

brief·​ly ˈbrē-flē How to pronounce briefly (audio)
1
a
: in a brief way
briefly mentioned
b
: in brief
the food, briefly, was awful
2
: for a short time
briefly married

Synonyms

  • compactly
  • concisely
  • crisply
  • curtly
  • elliptically
  • laconically
  • pithily
  • shortly
  • succinctly
  • summarily
  • tersely
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Example Sentences

Several important issues are only briefly mentioned. Please briefly describe your experience. We briefly considered canceling the trip.
Recent Examples on the Web After high school, John Boll worked briefly as a plumber’s apprentice and then found jobs in auto plants. James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022 After briefly and vaguely acknowledging that something strange had happened to both of them, the two friends would not talk about the experience for years. Samuel Braslow, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2022 Frankfurter, who had worked briefly as a tenement inspector and had seen up close the squalor and indignity of modern industrial life, was outraged. John Fabian Witt, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2022 Dunn worked briefly with the cornerbacks in group sessions that day. Nathan Baird, cleveland, 23 Aug. 2022 Russell resigned as Celtics coach after the team failed to make the playoffs in 1970, and worked briefly in television before being hired as coach of the Seattle SuperSonics. Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 31 July 2022 While shooting, Ramos steps outside the classrooms briefly and reenters. Joyce Sohyun Lee, Washington Post, 17 July 2022 Parts of San Diego County were briefly and lightly shaken on Wednesday by a pair of small earthquakes, one which originated offshore and the other which occurred in the desert, according to the US Geological Survey. Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2022 Ames Research Center, where Buzas worked briefly with Linas Sargautis, now 36. Alex Knapp, Forbes, 5 July 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

briefly

adverb

as in concisely
in a few words tell us briefly why you chose this position

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • concisely
  • shortly
  • summarily
  • succinctly
  • precisely
  • in short
  • in brief
  • curtly
  • tersely
  • crisply
  • laconically
  • abruptly
  • pithily
  • in sum
  • elliptically
  • compactly
  • exactly
  • in a nutshell
  • bluntly
  • brusquely
  • aphoristically
  • sententiously
  • in a word
  • bluffly
  • monosyllabically

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • verbosely
  • wordily
  • diffusely
  • long-windedly
  • redundantly
  • repetitiously
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