I'm writing a story and I'm stuck. What's a synonym for "quick"?
2006-08-25 14:24:35 · 10 answers · asked by summerlover 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Take your pick.....
Agile
Fast
Flying
Immediate
nimble
Prompt
Quickly
Ready
Speedy
Spry
Straightaway
Warm
2006-08-25 14:28:37 · answer #1 · answered by au_yowie 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
http://www.synonym.com/synonym/quick
2006-08-25 21:29:03 · answer #2 · answered by ideaspclst 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
quick
adjective
Characterized by great celerity: breakneck, expeditious, fast, fleet, rapid, speedy, swift. Informal hell-for-leather. Idioms: quick as abunnywink. See fast/slow/velocity.
Moving or performing quickly, lightly, and easily: agile, brisk, facile, nimble, spry. See ability/inability.
Mentally quick and original: alert, bright, clever, intelligent, keen1, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-witted, smart. Idioms: smart as a whip. See ability/inability.
Accomplished in very little time: brief, expeditious, fast, flying, hasty, hurried, rapid, short, speedy, swift. See fast/slow/velocity.
noun
A point of origin from which ideas or influences, for example, originate: bottom, center, core, focus, heart, hub, root1. See start/end.
adverb
In a rapid way: apace, fast, posthaste, quickly. Informal flat out, hell-for-leather, lickety-split, pronto. Idioms: full tilt, in a flash, in nothing flat, like a bat out of hell, like a blue streak, like a flash, like a house on fire, like a shot, like a streak, like greased lightning, like the wind, like wildfire.
2006-08-25 23:16:13 · answer #3 · answered by krazymagex 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
able, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, animated, apt, bright, brisk, clever, deft, dexterous, discerning, energetic, expeditious, expeditiously, express, facile, fast, fleet, fleetly, flying, hasty, hurried, immediate, impulsive, intelligent, keen, lively, nimble, observant, prompt, promptly, quick-witted, quickly, rapid, rapidly, ready, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart, speedily, speedy, spry, straightaway, sudden, swift, swiftly, telling, witty
warm
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2006-08-25 21:31:01 · answer #4 · answered by tmeerkat 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
hasty, swift, fast,speedy, fleet, hurried, and rapid. Hope they help!
2006-08-25 21:30:09 · answer #5 · answered by phantomsprincess 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
instantly, without pause, immeiately, rushing, zooming, flying, at once.
2006-08-25 21:35:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
rapid, fleeting, fast
2006-08-25 21:28:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
fast, rapid, hurridly, flash
2006-08-25 21:28:03 · answer #8 · answered by pink_pink_u_stink 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
fast, speedy
2006-08-25 21:29:17 · answer #9 · answered by um yea hi 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
FAST!!!!!!! duh!
2006-08-25 21:32:30 · answer #10 · answered by blonde brunette 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋