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quickly

When you do something quickly, you do it really fast — like when you quickly eat breakfast so you won’t be late to school.

The adverb quickly can describe any action that’s done at great speed. If you see a wolf running quickly, that means it’s moving rapidly and you’d better hide quickly. Quickly can also carry the sense of doing something without delay or hesitation. Sometimes quickly has a connotation of not putting much thought or effort into something, like when you quickly do your math homework.

DEFINITIONS OF: quickly

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adv with little or no delay

Synonyms:
promptly, quick

adv with rapid movements

“he works quickly
Synonyms:
apace, chop-chop, rapidly, speedily
Antonyms:
easy, slow, slowly, tardily
without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')

adv without taking pains

Synonyms:
cursorily
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