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Another word for expeditious

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Adjective

  1. Characterized by great celerity

  2. Accomplished in very little time

      1. Moving or capable of moving with great speed; rapid; fast
      2. Coming, occurring, or accomplished quickly:
      3. Quick to act or react:
      1. Characterized by speed of motion; rapid; swift
      2. Without delay; quick; prompt
      1. (Phonet.) Articulated for a relatively short time; brief in duration
      2. Containing a large amount of shortening; flaky:
      3. Easily provoked; irascible:
      1. Moving, acting, or occurring with great speed.
      2. Moving, progressing, or occurring with speed; swift; fast; quick
      1. Perceiving or responding with speed and sensitivity; keen:
      2. Moving or functioning rapidly and energetically; speedy:
      3. Occurring, achieved, or acquired in a relatively brief period of time:
      1. Moving or acting rapidly.
      2. Done in great haste:
      3. Required to move or act more rapidly; rushed.
      1. Showing irritation or impatience
      2. Acting with too much speed or haste; hurried:
      3. Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick. (e.g. Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it.)
      1. Hasty and brief
      2. Moving as if flying; moving swiftly; fast
      3. Of or relating to aviation:
      1. Acquired quickly with little effort and sometimes unscrupulously:
      2. Allowing rapid movement or action:
      3. Designed for or compatible with a short exposure time:
      1. Using relatively few words; concise
      2. Short in time, duration, length, or extent.
      3. Of short duration or extent
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Sentence Examples

  • Volumetric methods are more expeditious and require less apparatus.

  • The more expeditious method is of course to lay down turf, which should be free from weeds, and is cut usually in strips of i ft.

  • Still more expeditious is the use of a planimeter, such as Captain Prytz's " Hatchet Planimeter," which yields fairly accurate results, or G.

  • At the conclusion of the ceremony they each throw upon the other some grains of rice, and the most expeditious in performing this feat is considered to have got the start of the other in the future control of the household, and receives the applause of the male or female part of the congregation as the case may be.

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