Synonyms for quickly
ˈkwɪk liquick·ly

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.5 / 9 votes

1. quickly, rapidly, speedily, chop-chop, apaceadverb

   with rapid movements

   "he works quickly"

   Synonyms:
   cursorily, rapidly, chop-chop, speedily, quick, apace, promptly

   Antonyms:
   easy, slow, slowly, tardily

2. promptly, quickly, quickadverb

   with little or no delay

   "the rescue squad arrived promptly"; "come here, quick!"

   Synonyms:
   rapidly, pronto, chop-chop, speedily, cursorily, readily, right away, quick, apace, promptly

   Antonyms:
   easy, slow, tardily, slowly

3. cursorily, quicklyadverb

   without taking pains

   "he looked cursorily through the magazine"

   Synonyms:
   cursorily, rapidly, chop-chop, speedily, quick, apace, promptly

   Antonyms:
   tardily, slowly, slow, easy

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. suddenlyadverb

   i suddenly realised what was happening...

   Submitted by elsieportman on June 9, 2023  

2. whizzed

   the baseball (whizzed) through the air. baseball moved (quickly) through the air

   Submitted by rinat on August 19, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 3 votes

1. quicklyadjective

   Synonyms:
   speedily, swiftly, rapidly, soon, quick, immediately, with haste, with celerity, without delay, post-haste

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:3.0 / 2 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "quickly":

   rapidly, swiftly, fast, soon, promptly, speedily, quick, expeditiously, rapid, hurry, urgently, briefly, early, prompt, timely, swift, readily, shortly, faster, speedy, sooner, immediately

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1. Reverend Steven L. Thomason:

   If folks are isolated or quarantined, they quickly feel the challenges of that solitude and sense of loneliness, what technology affords us now is, even if those restrictions come about, we have the capacity to remain connected.

2. Shane Snyder:

   What we have become used to as reliable water, may quickly change — so we have to be prepared, we have to be thinking about the infrastructure in advance, there's a big drive to become water independent — to control our own future — and that is largely dependent on the technologies we're developing.

3. Jimena Loveluck:

   This is a very clear example of how quickly this virus spreads and how many people can be impacted in a very short amount of time we can not hope to accomplish our goal of containing COVID-19 and preventing additional cases, hospitalizations and deaths without full community support and cooperation.

4. XinR Alarm:

   I wonder why I was never even scared, I guess I never really even cared It’s a fate I never really feared, It’s a comfort that quickly disappeared I wonder why I was never even there, I guess life's really never been fair It’s all a huge joke on our sympathy, how we’ve destroyed our own dignity

5. President Trump:

   We want to respect the process, and the process will move, I think it is going to move very quickly actually. I agree with the statement put out by Mitch McConnell. I agree with it actually 100 %. I put out a very similar statement The President saw, so I think we're going to start the process extremely soon, and we'll have a nominee very soon.