| Main Entry: | fast |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | speedy |
Synonyms: |
PDQ, accelerated, active, agile, blue streak, breakneck, brisk, chop-chop, dashing, double-time, electric, expeditious, expeditive, flashing, fleet, fleeting, flying, hairtrigger, hasty, hot, hurried, hypersonic, in a jiffy, in nothing flat, lickety split, like a bat out of hell, like all get out, like crazy, like mad, nimble, on the double, posthaste, presto, pronto, quick, racing, rapid, ready, screamin', snap*, snappy, speedball, supersonic, swift, velocious, winged |
Antonyms: |
plodding, slow, tardy, unhurried |
| Main Entry: | fast |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fixed, immovable |
Synonyms: |
adherent, ardent, attached, close, constant, constrained, durable, faithful, fastened, firm, fortified, glued, held, impregnable, indelible, inextricable, lasting, loyal, permanent, resistant, resolute, secure, set, sound, stable, staunch, steadfast, stuck, sure, tenacious, tight, true, true blue, unwavering, wedged |
Antonyms: |
flexible, impermanent, insecure, loose, movable, unattached, unfixed |
| Main Entry: | fast |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral, promiscuous |
Synonyms: |
bawdy, careless, debauched, depraved, devil-may-care, dissipated, dissolute, easy, extravagant, flirtatious, frivolous, gadabout, giddy, incontinent, indecent, intemperate, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous, licentious, light, loose, lustful, profligate, rakish, reckless, salacious, self-gratifying, self-indulgent, sportive, sporty, unchaste, wanton, wild |
Antonyms: |
good, moral, upright |
| Main Entry: | fast |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | speedily |
Synonyms: |
apace, chop-chop, expeditiously, flat-out, fleetly, full tilt, hastily, hurriedly, in a flash, in haste, in nothing flat, in short order, like a flash, like a shot, like greased lightning, like wildfire, posthaste, presto, promptly, pronto, quick, quickly, rapidly, soon, swift, swiftly |
Antonyms: |
slow, slowly |
| Main Entry: | fast |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | fixedly |
Synonyms: |
deeply, firm, firmly, hard, securely, solidly, soundly, steadfastly, tight, tightly |
Antonyms: |
loosely, unfixedly |
| Main Entry: | abiding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | continuing or existing for an indefinite time |
Synonyms: |
constant, continuing, enduring, eternal, everlasting, fast, indissoluble, lasting, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, steadfast, steady |
Antonyms: |
ephemeral, fleeting, transient |
| Main Entry: | brief |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | short in time |
Synonyms: |
concise, curtailed, ephemeral, fast, fleeting, hasty, instantaneous, little, meteoric, momentary, passing, quick, short-lived, short-term, swift, temporary, transient, transitory |
Antonyms: |
enduring, lasting, lengthy, long, long-lived |
| Main Entry: | constant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | loyal, determined |
Synonyms: |
allegiant, attached, dependable, devoted, dogged, faithful, fast, persevering, resolute, staunch, tried-and-true, true, trustworthy, trusty, unfailing, unflagging, unshaken, unwavering |
Antonyms: |
disloyal, fickle, flagging, inconstant, undecided, undetermined, untrue, untrustworthy |
| 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 |
| Notes: | cursory means 'superficial'; cursorial is 'pertaining or adapted to running' |
Antonyms: |
complete, meticulous, painstaking, perfect, thorough, unhurried |
| Main Entry: | debauched |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violated, corrupted |
Synonyms: |
abandoned, corrupt, debased, defiled, degenerate, degraded, depraved, deteriorated, dissipated, dissolute, fast, gone bad, gone to the dogs, immoral, in the gutter, licentious, perverted, profligate, reprobate, vitiate, vitiated, wanton, wicked |
Antonyms: |
clean, cleansed, improved, pure, purified, uncorrupt, unpolluted, virtuous |