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swift

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of swift

moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed

  • the sleekest, swiftest boat ever to have sailed in the regatta
Synonyms of swift

blistering, breakneck, breathless, brisk, dizzy, fast, fleet, fleet-footed, flying, galloping, hasty, hot, lightning, nippy, quick, rapid, rapid-fire, rattling, snappy, speedy, splitting, whirlwind, zippy
Words Related to swift

expeditious, prompt, ready

accelerated, hastened, hurried, quickened, rushed

breathtaking

energetic, strenuous, strong, vigorous

high-speed

rush

ultrafast, ultrarapid
Phrases Synonymous with swift

at speed [chiefly British]
Near Antonyms of swift

crawling, dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, dragging, laggard, languid, lingering, plodding, poking, poky (or pokey), slowish, sluggish, unhurried

deliberate, leisurely, measured

dilatory, late, tardy

ultraslow
Antonyms of swift

slow

Synonym Discussion of swift

fast, rapid, swift, fleet, quick, speedy, hasty, expeditious mean moving, proceeding, or acting with celerity. fast and rapid are very close in meaning, but fast applies particularly to the thing that moves
    • fast horses
and rapid to the movement itself.
    • rapid current
swift suggests great rapidity coupled with ease of movement.
    • returned the ball with one swift stroke
fleet adds the implication of lightness and nimbleness.
    • fleet runners
quick suggests promptness and the taking of little time.
    • a quick wit
speedy implies quickness of successful accomplishment
    • speedy delivery of mail
and may also suggest unusual velocity. hasty suggests hurry and precipitousness and often connotes carelessness.
    • a hasty inspection
expeditious suggests efficiency together with rapidity of accomplishment.
    • the expeditious handling of an order

swift

adverb

Synonyms and Antonyms of swift

with great speed

  • tried to cross the swift-flowing river
Synonyms of swift

apace, briskly, chop-chop, double-quick, fast, fleetly, full tilt, hastily, hell-for-leather, hot, lickety-split, posthaste, presto, pronto, quick, quickly, rapidly, snappily, soon, speedily, swiftly
Words Related to swift

immediately, promptly, readily

impetuously, impulsively, rashly, recklessly

abruptly, suddenly

energetically, vigorously
Phrases Synonymous with swift

a mile a minute, at full throttle, at full tilt, by leaps and bounds, in a hurry, in short order, like a shot, like gangbusters, like wildfire
Near Antonyms of swift

laggardly, lingeringly, ploddingly, sluggishly

deliberately, leisurely

belatedly, delinquently, tardily
Antonyms of swift

slow, slowly

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