Thesaurus:quickly
English
Adverb
Sense: without delay; with great speed
Synonyms
Colloquial, Archaic, Slang
- at the high port
- balls-out
- balls to the wall
- cranking
- flat out
- full throttle
- hauling
- hauling ass
- hell-for-leather
- hell-bent for leather
- 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 there is no tomorrow
- like the wind
- screaming
- before you can say Jack Robinson
- in a flash
- in a jiffy
- in no time [⇒ thesaurus]
- in the twinkling of an eye
- in two shakes
- on the double
- PDQ
- pronto
- quick as a flash
- quick as a wink
- on the pdq
- toot sweet
Antonyms
See also
Further reading
- “274. velocity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “quickly” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.