Definition of QUICKLY

quickly

Adverb

  • At a fast speed; without delay or much time.
  • with rapid movements
    • "he works quickly"
  • with little or no delay
  • without taking pains

Adv

  • Rapidly; with speed; fast.
  • Very soon.

Examples

  • If we go this way, we'll get there quickly.
  • Luckily, the error was quickly corrected.
  • She QUICKLY arranged her tiles, seeing the perfect Scrabble word appear on her rack.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English quykly, quikliche, quicliche, cwikliche, cwickliche, from Old English cwiculīċe. By surface analysis, quick + -ly.

Synonyms

apace, chop-chop, cursorily, promptly, quick, rapidly, speedily, PDQ, at speed, at the high port, balls to the wall, balls-out, before you can say Jack Robinson, cranking, expeditiously, fast, flat out, full throttle, hastily, hauling, hauling ass, hell-bent for leather, hell-for-leather, hurriedly, in a flash, in a jiffy, in no time, in the twinkling of an eye, in two shakes, 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 the wind, like there is no tomorrow, on the double, on the pdq, posthaste, pronto, quick as a flash, quick as a wink, quicksome, screaming, soon, swiftly, toot sweet, with dispatch

Antonyms

slowly

Scrabble Score: 25

quickly: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
quickly: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
quickly: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 27

quickly: valid Words With Friends Word