Another word for fast
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Adjective
Characterized by great celerity
- Likely to cause an accident:
- Very fast, reckless, dangerous, etc.
- Fast, prompt, speedy.
- Done with or characterized by expedition; efficient and speedy; prompt
- (Of a process or thing) Completed or done with efficiency and speed; facilitating speed.
- Fleeting; evanescent.
- Moving swiftly and nimbly.
- Swift; rapid
- Moving or functioning rapidly and energetically; speedy:
- Done or occurring immediately:
- Perceiving or responding with speed and sensitivity; keen:
- Moving, acting, or occurring with great speed.
- Moving, progressing, or occurring with speed; swift; fast; quick
- Without delay; quick; prompt
- Characterized by rapid motion; swift.
- Acting or responding quickly; prompt; ready
- Moving or capable of moving with great speed; rapid; fast
- Coming, occurring, or accomplished quickly:
- At breakneck speed:
- With all of one's energy, will, etc.; with wholehearted or reckless determination
- At full speed or with great speed
Idioms:See also:Accomplished in very little time
- Using relatively few words; concise
- Short in time, duration, length, or extent.
- Of short duration or extent
- Fast, prompt, speedy.
- Done with or characterized by expedition; efficient and speedy; prompt
- (Of a process or thing) Completed or done with efficiency and speed; facilitating speed.
- Capable of or engaged in flight:
- Hasty and brief
- Of or relating to aviation:
- Moving or acting rapidly.
- Done in great haste:
- Required to move or act more rapidly; rushed.
- Perceiving or responding with speed and sensitivity; keen:
- Moving or functioning rapidly and energetically; speedy:
- Occurring, achieved, or acquired in a relatively brief period of time:
- Moving, acting, or occurring with great speed.
- Moving, progressing, or occurring with speed; swift; fast; quick
- (Phonet.) Articulated for a relatively short time; brief in duration
- Containing a large amount of shortening; flaky:
- Easily provoked; irascible:
- Characterized by speed of motion; rapid; swift
- Without delay; quick; prompt
- Moving or capable of moving with great speed; rapid; fast
- Coming, occurring, or accomplished quickly:
- Quick to act or react:
See also:Lacking in moral restraint
- Intemperate in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute.
- Irreversibly lost. Used of energy.
- To have squandered and scattered valuable possessions while devoted to pursuit of self-indulgent pleasures
- Dissipated and immoral; profligate; debauched
- Lacking moral restraint; indulging in sensual pleasures or vices.
- Given to social life and pleasures
- Of, for, or relating to homosexuals, often, specif., male homosexuals
- Given to social pleasures, especially at the expense of serious pursuits:
- Lacking sexual restraint; unchaste.
- Lacking normal voluntary control of excretory functions.
- Without the normal ability to restrain a particular natural discharge, as of urine, from the body
- (Rare) Disregarding accepted rules and standards
- Morally unrestrained, esp. in sexual activity; lascivious
- Lacking moral restraint, especially in sexual conduct.
- Extremely wasteful; recklessly extravagant
- Given to or characterized by licentiousness or dissipation:
- Given to or characterized by reckless waste; wildly extravagant:
- Like a rake; dissolute
- Having a trim, neat appearance suggesting speed
- Of the character of a rake; dissolute.
- Not under control, discipline, or governance.
- Not controlled
- Lacking control or discipline
- Lacking restraint
- Not inhibited; having no inhibitions.
- Without inhibition; esp., free from the usual social or psychological restraints, as in behavior
- Uninhibited or unreserved:
- Immoderate; not restrained or held in check
- Not controlled or held in check; immoderate:
- Exciting or expressing sexual desire:
- Lascivious or promiscuous. Used especially of women.
- Reckless; extremely careless; acting with utter disregard for others; implies conduct that is beyond mere negligence. In criminal law, malicious or malevolent intent. Reckless; extremely careless; acting with utter disregard for others; implies conduct that is beyond mere negligence. In criminal law, malicious or malevolent intent.
- Deviating greatly from an intended course; erratic:
- Occurring, growing, or living in a natural state; not domesticated, cultivated, or tamed:
- Characterized by a lack of moral restraint; dissolute or licentious:
See also:Marked by an absence of conventional restraint in sexual behavior; sexually unrestrained
- Free from worry, anxiety, trouble, or pain:
- Requiring or exhibiting little effort or endeavor; undemanding:
- Light; gentle:
- Morally unrestrained; licentious
- Requiring relatively little equipment and using relatively simple processes to produce consumer goods:
- Easy to digest
- Easy to bear or endure:
- Not tight; giving enough room
- Not strained or hard
- (Informal) Relaxed; easy; unconstrained
- Lascivious or promiscuous. Used especially of women.
- Reckless; extremely careless; acting with utter disregard for others; implies conduct that is beyond mere negligence. In criminal law, malicious or malevolent intent. Reckless; extremely careless; acting with utter disregard for others; implies conduct that is beyond mere negligence. In criminal law, malicious or malevolent intent.
- Exciting or expressing sexual desire:
- Of or characteristic of whores or a whore; lewd.
See also:Permanently resistive to fading
- Having color that will not run or fade with washing or wear:
- That will keep its original color without fading or running
- Making a mark not easily erased or washed away:
- Unable to be forgotten; memorable:
- Leaving a lasting mark
See also:Persistently holding to something
- Securely fixed in place:
- Legally or formally concluded; definite; final
- Constant; steadfast:
- Free from danger or attack:
- Not likely to fail or give way; stable:
- Reliable; dependable:
- That retains well; retentive
- Characterized by extreme persistence; relentless or enduring:
- Holding together firmly; cohesive:
- Marked by full control over elements or subordinates; firm:
- Stretched or drawn out fully:
- Barely profitable:
Firmly settled or positioned
- Unfluctuating; steady:
- Legally or formally concluded; definite; final
- Strong and sure:
- Reliable; dependable:
- Not likely to fail or give way; stable:
- Reliable; dependable
- Not showing or marked by erratic or volatile emotions or behavior:
- Not likely to change or be affected adversely; lasting; enduring
- Not likely to break down, fall apart, or give way; fixed
- Not given to sudden changes in behavior, loyalty, disposition, etc.
- Not easily excited or upset:
- Direct and unfaltering; sure.
- Intellectually powerful; able to think vigorously and clearly
- In good or sound health; robust:
- Forceful and pointed; emphatic:
- That will not fail; always effective
- (Obs.) Secure or safe
- Having one's course directed; destined or bound:
See also:Adhering firmly and devotedly, as to a person, a cause, or a duty
- Steadfastly loyal, especially to a monarch or government.
- Remaining steady in affections or loyalties; faithful
- Steadfast in purpose, loyalty, or affection; faithful.
- Regularly recurring:
- Engaging in sex only with one's spouse or only with one's partner in a sexual relationship.
- Adhering firmly and devotedly, as to a person, cause, or idea; loyal.
- Consistent with truth or actuality:
- Not yielding easily under pressure; solid; hard
- Unfluctuating; steady:
- Constant; steadfast:
- Entitled to the loyalty and services of vassals or subjects:
- Bound to give service and allegiance to the lord
- Loyal; faithful
- Faithful to the constituted authority of one's country
- Faithful to those persons, ideals, etc. that one is under obligation to defend, support, or be true to
- Faithful to a person, ideal, custom, cause, or duty.
- Strong; solidly made; substantial
- Firm; steadfast; loyal
- Firm and steadfast; loyal or true.
- Properly called:
- Exactly conforming to a rule, standard, or pattern:
- Reliable; accurate:
Adverb
In a rapid way
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Another word for fast
Modifier
Noun
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- The act of voluntarily doing without some or all food, drink, or other pleasures
- (R.C.Ch.) Abstention from flesh meat on certain designated days
- The act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite or desire, especially for alcoholic drink or sexual intercourse.
- A religious holy day, etc. observed by fasting
- In the Middle Ages, the period from Martinmas (November 11) to Christmas
- A 40-day period of fasting and penitence observed by many Christians in preparation for Easter. In Western churches, Lent lasts from Ash Wednesday until Easter, usually excepting Sundays.
- The period of forty weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Easter, observed variously in Christian churches by fasting and penitence
- The ninth month of the Muslim year, a period of daily fasting from sunrise to sunset
- A fast, held from sunrise to sunset, that is carried out during this period.
- One of the Jewish High Holidays, the Day of Atonement, a fast day of repentance during which the prayers recited include the Kol Nidre, observed on the 10th day of Tishri: Lev. 16:29-34
- A restrictive diet (of bread and water, for example) as a punishment or religious form of discipline.
- Loss of appetite, especially as a result of disease.
- An eating disorder, chiefly in young women, characterized by aversion to food and obsession with weight loss, and manifested in self-induced starvation and excessive exercise, etc.
- Anorexia nervosa.
Verb
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- To suffer or become weak from hunger
- To suffer or die from extreme or prolonged lack of food.
- To cause to starve by depriving of food
- To regulate or prescribe food and drink for.
- To eat or cause to eat special or limited food, esp. for losing weight
Idioms:
play fast and loose (with)
Synonym Study
- Hasty suggests hurried action and may connote carelessness, rashness, or impatience
- Speedy intensifies the idea of quickness, but may also connote high velocity a speedy recovery, a speedy flight
- Quick implies promptness of action, or occurrence in a brief amount of time, rather than velocity a quick reply
- Fleet suggests a nimbleness or lightness in that which moves swiftly
- Swift implies great rapidity, but in addition often connotes smooth, easy movement
- Fast and rapid are generally interchangeable in expressing the idea of a relatively high rate of movement or action, but fast more often refers to the person or thing that moves or acts, and rapid to the action a fast typist, rapid transcription
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