| Main Entry: | speedy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fast, quick |
Synonyms: |
accelerated, agile, alacritous, breakneck, brisk, expeditious, express, fleet, harefooted, hasty, headlong, hurried, immediate, lissome, lively, nimble, precipitate, prompt, quick-fire, rapid, rapid-fire, ready, snappy, summary, supersonic, swift, ultrasonic, winged |
Antonyms: |
delayed, halted, slowed, tardy |
| Main Entry: | active |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having movement |
Synonyms: |
alive, astir, at work, bustling, effective, efficacious, exertive, flowing, functioning, going, hasty, impelling, in force, in play, in process, mobile, movable, moving, operating, operative, progressive, pushing, rapid, restless, rolling, running, rushing, rustling, shifting, simmering, speeding, speedy, streaming, swarming, traveling, turning, walking, working |
| Notes: | active knowledge is the knowledge of a language which a user actively employs in speech or writing, as opposed to passive knowledge, which is what a person understands in what he/she hears or reads |
Antonyms: |
abeyant, dormant, immobile, inactive, inert, lazy, sluggish |
| Main Entry: | adulterous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfaithful |
Synonyms: |
cheating, double-crossing, extracurricular, fast and loose, illicit, immoral, moonlighting, speedy*, two-faced, two-timing, unchaste |
Antonyms: |
chaste, clean, pure, virginal |
| Main Entry: | breakneck |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely fast |
Synonyms: |
at full tilt, dangerously fast, excessive, flat out, headlong, high-speed, lightning, precipitate, rapid, reckless, speedy, whirlwind |
Antonyms: |
extremely slow |
| Main Entry: | brisk |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fast-moving; active |
Synonyms: |
adroit, agile, alert, animated, bustling, busy, energetic, lively, nimble, quick, speedy, sprightly, spry, vigorous, vivacious, zippy |
Antonyms: |
inactive, slow, sluggish, unenergetic |
| Main Entry: | cursory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | casual, hasty |
Synonyms: |
brief, careless, depthless, desultory, fast, half-assed, half-baked, haphazard, hit or miss, hurried, offhand, passing, perfunctory, quick, random, rapid, shallow, short, sketchy, slapdash, slight, sloppy, speedy, summary, superficial, swift, uncritical |
Antonyms: |
complete, meticulous, painstaking, perfect, thorough, unhurried |
| Main Entry: | early |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sooner than expected |
Synonyms: |
advanced, ahead of time, anticipative, anticipatory, before appointed time, beforehand, direct, immature, immediate, matinal, on short notice, on the dot, overearly, oversoon, preceding, precipitant, precocious, preexistent, premature, previous, prompt, pronto, punctual, quick, seasonable, soon, speedy, unanticipated, unexpected, untimely |
Antonyms: |
later |
| Main Entry: | fleet |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | quick in movement |
Synonyms: |
agile, barreling, breakneck, brisk, expeditious, expeditive, fast, flying, hasty, in nothing flat, like greased lightning, lively, mercurial, meteoric, nimble, nimble-footed, on the double, rapid, screaming, speedball, speedy, swift, winged |
Antonyms: |
clumsy, slow |
| Main Entry: | flying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in the air, winged |
Synonyms: |
aerial, aeronautical, airborne, avian, drifting, express, flapping, fleet, floating, fluttering, gliding, hovering, mercurial, mobile, on the wing, plumed, soaring, speedy, streaming, swooping, volant, volar, volitant, waving, winging, zooming |
Antonyms: |
ground, grounded |
| Main Entry: | hurried |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | quick, rushed |
Synonyms: |
abrupt, breakneck, brief, cursory, fast, hasty, headlong, hectic, impetuous, perfunctory, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, rushing, short, slapdash, speedy, subitaneous, sudden, superficial, swift |
Antonyms: |
easily, leisurely, slow, unhurried, unrushed |