Thesaurus:quickly

Thesaurus

quickly

English

Adverb

Sense: without delay; with great speed

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.