Word Meanings - QUICKLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Speedily; with haste or celerity; soon; without delay; quick.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of QUICKLY)

• Directly
• Straightly
• straightway
• immediately
• undeviatingly
• at once
• promptly
• quickly
• instantly
• Soon
• Shortly
• before long
• early

Related words: (words related to QUICKLY)

• EARLY
  Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early. Those that me early shall find me. Prov. viii. 17. You must wake and call me early. Tennyson.
• PROMPTLY
  In a prompt manner.
• INSTANTLY
  1. Without the least delay or interval; at once; immediately. Macaulay. 2. With urgency or importunity; earnestly; pressingly. "They besought him instantly." Luke vii. 4. Syn. -- Directly; immediately; at once. See Directly.
• BEFORETIME
  Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
• STRAIGHTWAY
  Immediately; without loss of time; without delay. He took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi. . . . And straightway the damsel arose. Mark v. 41,42.
• SHORTLY
  1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. Chaucer. I shall grow jealous of you shortly. Shak. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon. 2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in
• STRAIGHTLY
  In a right line; not crookedly.
• STRAIGHTWAYS
  Straightway.
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• IMMEDIATELY
  1. In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous. God's acceptance of it either immediately by himself, or mediately by the hands of the bishop.
• QUICKLY
  Speedily; with haste or celerity; soon; without delay; quick.
• DIRECTLY
  1. In a direct manner; in a straight line or course. "To run directly on." Shak. Indirectly and directly too Thou hast contrived against the very life Of the defendant. Shak. 2. In a straightforward way; without anything intervening;
• BEFORE
  1. In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house. His angel, who shall go Before them in a cloud and pillar of fire. Milton. 2. Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when;
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• HALF-YEARLY
  Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually.
• PEARLY
  1. Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells. Milton. 2. Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
• REARLY
  Early. Beau. & Ft.
• UNDIRECTLY
  Indirectly. Strype.
• NEARLY
  In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost.
• HEREINBEFORE
  In the preceding part of this .
• INDIRECTLY
  In an direct manner; not in a straight line or course; not in express terms; obliquely; not by direct means; hence, unfairly; wrongly. To tax it indirectly by taxing their expense. A. Smith. Your crown and kingdom indirectly held. Shak.