swiftly
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 7
/ˈswɪftli/
Definition of swiftly
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adv
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In a swift manner; quickly; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly.
“Mrs. Piper cut short these piracies by swiftly removing his spoon.”
“The head of the North Tyne is reached at Deadwater, 36 miles from Hexham. The river has its source just on the English side of the Border, at the foot of Peel Fell, the most westerly spur of the Cheviots. At first it is a sluggish stream (hence the name Deadwater) but begins to flow more swiftly before it reaches Kielder.”
“Strategic sites in even the remotest regions of the kingdom were swiftly fortified using forced labour.”
“[T]he early hostility of the Bulgarian supporters was swiftly subdued.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English swiftly, swyftely, swiftliche, from Old English swiftlīċe (“swiftly”), equivalent to swift + -ly.
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