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fastadjective moving, proceeding, or acting with great speedthe fast pace of construction resulted in our new house being done ahead of schedule blistering, breakneck, breathless, brisk, dizzy, fleet, fleet-footed, flying, galloping, hasty, hot, lightning, nippy, quick, rapid, rapid-fire, rattling, snappy, speedy, splitting, swift, whirlwind, zippy expeditious, prompt, readyaccelerated, hastened, hurried, quickened, rushedbreathtakingenergetic, strenuous, strong, vigoroushigh-speedrushultrafast, ultrarapid at speed(chiefly British) slow crawling, dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, dragging, laggard, languid, lingering, plodding, poking, poky(or pokey), slowish, sluggish, unhurrieddeliberate, leisurely, measureddilatory, late, tardyultraslow firm in one's allegiance to someone or somethingthe two girls soon became fast and inseparable friends constant, dedicated, devoted, devout, down-the-line, faithful, good, loyal, pious, staunch(also stanch), steadfast, steady, true, true-blue dependable, dutiful, reliable, responsible, solid, tried, tried-and-true, trustworthy, trustyunfaltering, unhesitating, unwaveringdetermined, intent, resoluteconfirmed, dyed-in-the-wool, inveterate, swornardent, avid, enthusiastic, fervent, fervid, gung ho, impassioned, passionate, serious disloyal, faithless, false, fickle, inconstant, perfidious, recreant, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, untrue irresponsible, undependable, unreliable, untrustworthyfaltering, hesitant, vacillating, waveringdubious, irresolute, shaky, uncertainapathetic, dispassionate, uninterested firmly positioned in place and difficult to dislodgethe rusty, old screws are so fast in the fitting that there's no hope of getting them out firm, frozen, jammed, lodged, set, snug, stuck, tight, wedged bonded, cemented, gluedanchored, clampedembedded(also imbedded), entrenched(also intrenched), impacted, implantedattached, bound, fastened, securedimmovable, unyielding insecure, loose detached, dislodged, freed, loosened, unattached, unbound, undone, unfastened, unsecuredmovable(or moveable), yielding given to or marked by cheating and deceptionrolling back odometers was just one of the fast practices that the used-car dealer was guilty of bent(chiefly British), crooked, deceptive, dishonest, double-dealing, duplicitous, fraudulent, guileful, rogue, shady, sharp, shifty, underhand, underhanded unconscionable, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulousdeceitful, deceiving, deluding, delusive, delusory, falseartful, beguiling, cagey(also cagy), crafty, cunning, foxy, slick, sly, subtle, wilydefrauding, devious, furtive, slippery, sneaking, sneaky, trickish, trickyinsidious, perfidious, treacherous aboveboard, honest, straight conscientious, decent, ethical, honorable, just, scrupulous, uprightforthright, straightforward marked by the ability to withstand stress without structural damage or distortionas the storm approached, we checked to see that every thing on the outside of the house was fast and locked in position bombproof, firm, sound, stable, stalwart, strong, sturdy dependable, durable, reliableinfrangible, irrefragable, unbreakablebeefy, solidcohesive, tough rickety, unsound, unstable, unsteady infirm, insecure, weakshaky, tottering, tottery, unbalanced, wobbly(also wabbly)unsubstantial not lasting for a considerable timeafter a fast explanation of the procedure, we were turned loose to do the work brief, little, short shortishabbreviated, abridged, curtailed, cut-back, shortened, syncopatedcompact, condensedabrupt, suddenephemeral, fleeting, momentary, short-lived, transient, transitoryimpermanentcompendious, concise, crisp, epigrammatic, laconic, pithy, succinct, summary, terseshort-range, short-term extended, far, great, lengthy, long, long-drawn-out(or long-drawn), long-lived endless, everlasting, interminable, persistent, unendinglongish, overlong, prolonged, protractedpermanentenlarged, expanded, supplementedlong-range, long-term having or showing quickness of mindI don't know how to operate this machine, but I'm a fast learner alert, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, exceptional, hyperintelligent, intelligent, keen, nimble, quick, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, supersmart, ultrasmart apt, ingenious, resourcefulacute, astute, discerning, heady, insightful, knowing, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sapient, savvy, wisecerebral, erudite, genial, highbrow, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly, well-readeducated, informed, schooled, skilled, trainedcreative, inventive, judicious, prudent, sage, sane, sapient, sensible, sound, wisecrafty, cunning, foxy, shrewd, wilylogical, rational, reasonable airheaded, birdbrained, boneheaded, brain-dead, brainless, bubbleheaded, chuckleheaded, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey(also dopy), dorky(slang), dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, gormless(chiefly British), half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain(or lamebrained), lunkheaded, mindless, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, stupid, thick, thickheaded, thick-witted, unbrilliant, unintelligent, unsmart, vacuous, weak-minded, witless feebleminded, simplemindedboobish, foolish, half-baked, idiotic(also idiotical), imbecile(or imbecilic), moronic, sillyignorant, illiterate, lowbrow, nonintellectual, unacademic, uneducated, uninformed, unintellectual, untaught, unthinkingabsurd, asinine, balmy, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, featherheaded, fool, half-baked, harebrained, insane, kooky(also kookie), loony(also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, tomfool, unwise, wacky(also whacky), zany fastadverbwith great speedrun as fast as you can to get help apace, briskly, chop-chop, double-quick, fleetly, full tilt, hastily, hell-for-leather, hot, lickety-split, posthaste, presto, pronto, quick, quickly, rapidly, snappily, soon, speedily, swift, swiftly immediately, promptly, readilyimpetuously, impulsively, rashly, recklesslyabruptly, suddenlyenergetically, vigorously a mile a minute, at full throttle, at full tilt, by leaps and bounds, in a hurry, in short order, like a shot, like gangbusters, like wildfire slow, slowly laggardly, lingeringly, ploddingly, sluggishlydeliberately, leisurelybelatedly, delinquently, tardily to a full extent or degreeeveryone in camp was fast asleep within minutes of hitting the sack all, all of, all over, altogether, clean, completely, dead, enough, entire, entirely, even, exactly, flat, full, fully, heartily, out, perfectly, plumb(chiefly dialect), quite, soundly, thoroughly, through and through, totally, utterly, well, wholly, wide absolutely, categorically, cold, downright, hands down, plain, stone, stone-cold, unqualifiedlybasically, by and large, chiefly, generally, largely, mainly, more or less, mostly, overall, predominantly, predominately, primarily, principally, substantiallyabundantly, copiously, generously, greatly all the way, at length, down the line, down to the ground, for fair, in whole, to bits, to pieces, to the hilt, to the max half, halfway, incompletely, part, partially, partly barely, hardly, just, kind of, marginally, minimally, scarcely, slightly, superficiallyapproximately, roughly, somewhat adj.fast, rapid, swift, fleet, quick, speedy, hasty, expeditious mean moving, proceeding, or acting with celerity.fast and rapid are very close in meaning, but fast applies particularly to the thing that movesfast horses and rapid to the movement itself.rapid current swift suggests great rapidity coupled with ease of movement.returned the ball with one swift stroke fleet adds the implication of lightness and nimbleness.fleet runners quick suggests promptness and the taking of little time.a quick wit speedy implies quickness of successful accomplishmentspeedy delivery of mail and may also suggest unusual velocity.hasty suggests hurry and precipitousness and often connotes carelessness.a hasty inspection expeditious suggests efficiency together with rapidity of accomplishment.the expeditious handling of an order before the 12th century |