swift

adj.快速的;adj.反应灵敏的,

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
swift (adjective)
1.
moving or capable of moving with great speed - a swift runner
2.
occurring suddenly or within a very short time - a swift transition
3.
quick to respond - ready fast
swift (adverb)
- swiftly swift-flowing
swift (noun)
1.
any of several lizards (especially of the genus ) that run - Sceloporus swiftly
2.
a reel for winding yarn or thread
3.
any of numerous small plainly colored birds (family Apodidae) that are related to the hummingbirds but superficially much resemble swallows
Swift (biographical name)
Gustavus Franklin 1839–1903 Am. meatpacker
Swift (biographical name)
Jonathan 1667–1745 Eng. (Irish-born) satirist
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
swift (adjective)
moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed
SYNONYMS:
blistering, breakneck, breathless, brisk, dizzy, fleet, fleet-footed, flying, galloping, hasty, hot, lightning, nippy, quick, rapid, rapid-fire, rattling, snappy, speedy, splitting, swift, whirlwind, zippy
RELATED WORDS:
expeditious, prompt, ready; accelerated, hastened, hurried, quickened, rushed; breathtaking; energetic, strenuous, strong, vigorous; high-speed; rush; ultrafast, ultrarapid
NEAR ANTONYMS:
crawling, dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, dragging, laggard, languid, lingering, plodding, poking, poky ( pokey), slowish, sluggish, unhurried; deliberate, leisurely, measured; dilatory, late, tardy; ultraslow
slow
swift (adverb)
with great speed
SYNONYMS:
apace, briskly, chop-chop, double-quick, fleetly, full tilt, hastily, hell-for-leather, hot, lickety-split, posthaste, presto, pronto, quick, quickly, rapidly, snappily, soon, speedily, swift, swiftly
RELATED WORDS:
immediately, promptly, readily; impetuously, impulsively, rashly, recklessly; abruptly, suddenly; energetically, vigorously
NEAR ANTONYMS:
laggardly, lingeringly, ploddingly, sluggishly; deliberately, leisurely; belatedly, delinquently, tardily
slow, slowly
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