| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A point of origin from which ideas or influences, for example, originate: bottom, center, core, focus, heart, hub, root1. See START. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Mentally quick and original: alert, bright, clever, intelligent, keen1, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-witted, smart. Idioms: smart as a whip. See ABILITY. 2. Characterized by great celerity: breakneck, expeditious, fast, fleet, rapid, speedy, swift. Informal : hell-for-leather. Idioms: quick as a bunny (or wink) . See FAST. 3. Moving or performing quickly, lightly, and easily: agile, brisk, facile, nimble, spry. See ABILITY. 4. Accomplished in very little time: brief, expeditious, fast, flying, hasty, hurried, rapid, short, speedy, swift. See FAST. | | ADVERB: | In a rapid way: apace, fast, posthaste, quickly. Informal : flat out, hell-for-leather, lickety-split, pronto. Idioms: full tilt, in a flash, in nothing flat, like a bat out of hell, like a blue streak, like a flash, like a house on fire, like a shot, like a streak, like greased lightning, like the wind, like wildfire. See FAST.
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