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fast |
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fast adjective | verb
1 adjective 1.•a fast pace:speedy, quick, swift, rapid | fast-moving, fast-paced, high-speed, turbo, sporty | accelerated, express, blistering, breakneck, pell-mell | hasty, hurried | informal nippy, zippy, blinding, supersonic | literary fleet. ANT slow. 2.•he held the door fast:secure, fastened, tight, firm, closed, shut | immovable, unbudgeable. ANT loose. 3.•a fast color:indelible, lasting, permanent, stable. ANT temporary. 4.•fast friends:loyal, devoted, faithful, firm, steadfast, staunch, true, bosom, inseparable | constant, enduring, unswerving. 5.•a fast woman:promiscuous, licentious, dissolute, debauched, impure, unchaste, wanton, abandoned, of easy virtue | sluttish, whorish | intemperate, immoderate, shameless, sinful, immoral | informal easy | dated loose. ANT chaste.▶adverb 1.•she drove fast:quickly, rapidly, swiftly, speedily, briskly, at speed, at full tilt | hastily, hurriedly, in a hurry, posthaste, pell-mell | like a shot, like a flash, on the double, at the speed of light | informal lickety-split, pretty damn quick, PDQ, nippily, like (greased) lightning, hell-bent for leather, like mad, like the wind, like a bat out of hell | literary apace. ANT slowly. 2.•his wheels were stuck fast:securely, firmly, immovably, fixedly. 3.•he's fast asleep:deeply, sound, completely. 4.•she lived fast and dangerously:wildly, dissolutely, intemperately, immoderately, recklessly, self-indulgently, extravagantly.
2 verb •we must fast and pray:eat nothing, abstain from food, refrain from eating, go without food, go hungry, starve oneself | go on a hunger strike. ANT eat.▶noun •a five-day fast:period of fasting, period of abstinence | hunger strike | diet. ANT feast. |
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