expeditiously

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UK/ɛks.pəˈdɪʃ.əs.li/

adverb

In an expeditious manner, quickly.

Less commonScrabble 26

Meanings

adverbexpeditiously (comparative more expeditiously, superlative most expeditiously)

comparative more expeditiously · superlative most expeditiously

  1. In an expeditious manner, quickly.

    For the convenience of Charlotte and her child, they were to be more than two days on their journey, and Mr. Palmer, travelling more expeditiously with Colonel Brandon, was to join them at Cleveland soon after their arrival.

    1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XLII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC
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    With those words the passenger opened the coach-door and got in; not at all assisted by his fellow-passengers, who had expeditiously secreted their watches and purses in their boots, and were now making a general pretence of being asleep.

    1859, Charles Dickens, chapter II, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC

    Synonyms: apace, fast, hastily, hurriedly, posthaste, quicksome, rapidly, speedily

Synonyms & antonyms

More synonyms by meaning

adverbwith efficiency; in an efficient manner

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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Chicago

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