speedyadjective
uk/ˈspiː.di/us/ˈspiː.di/quick:
He's a very speedy worker.
We need to take speedy action/make a speedy decision.
Everyone is hoping for a speedy end to the conflict (= hoping that an end to it will happen quickly).
We wished her a speedy recovery from her illness (= that she would get better quickly).
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Hurrying and doing things quickly
- accelerate
- acceleration
- against the clock idiom
- against time/the clock idiom
- alacrity
- dose
- grease
- haste
- hasten
- hasty
- hit/press/push the panic button idiom
- patch
- rattle through sth
- rush
- rush into sth
- rush job
- rushed
- scrabble
- snap
- throw
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speedily
adverb uk/ˈspiː.dəl.i/us/ˈspiː.dəl.i/
The problem was speedily solved.
speediness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈspiː.di.nəs/us/ˈspiː.di.nəs/