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SPEEDY
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Irregular inflected forms: speedier , speediest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Accomplished rapidly and without delay
Example:
he has a right to a speedy trial
Synonyms:
quick; speedy
Classified under:
Similar:
fast (acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly)
Derivation:
speed (a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens)
speediness (a rate that is rapid)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed
Example:
a speedy errand boy
Synonyms:
rapid; speedy
Classified under:
Similar:
fast (acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly)
Derivation:
speed (changing location rapidly)
speed (distance travelled per unit time)
speediness (a rate that is rapid)
Context examples:
After being long fed with hopes of a speedy visit from Mr. and Mrs. Suckling, the Highbury world were obliged to endure the mortification of hearing that they could not possibly come till the autumn.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
On ascertaining that his daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very singular business.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The first feeling was disappointment: he had hoped better things; he had thought that an hour's entreaty from a young man like Crawford could not have worked so little change on a gentle-tempered girl like Fanny; but there was speedy comfort in the determined views and sanguine perseverance of the lover; and when seeing such confidence of success in the principal, Sir Thomas was soon able to depend on it himself.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He confined the knowledge of governing within very narrow bounds, to common sense and reason, to justice and lenity, to the speedy determination of civil and criminal causes; with some other obvious topics, which are not worth considering.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
On you it rests, whether I quit for ever the neighbourhood of man and lead a harmless life, or become the scourge of your fellow creatures and the author of your own speedy ruin.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Their eyes burned in their heads; their feet grew speedier and lighter; their whole soul was bound up in that fortune, that whole lifetime of extravagance and pleasure, that lay waiting there for each of them.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
However, such a speedy charge rate would require a battery to rapidly take in 400 kilowatts of energy, a feat that current vehicles cannot accomplish because it risks lithium plating (the formation of metallic lithium around the anode), which would severely deteriorate battery life.
(Modern Battery Design Can Charge Electric Car in 10 Minutes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
She knew enough to feel secure of an honourable and speedy establishment, and her imagination took a rapid flight over its attendant felicities.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Marianne severely censured herself for what she had said; but her own forgiveness might have been more speedy, had she known how little offence it had given her sister.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
A look of consciousness as he spoke, and what seemed a consciousness of manner on Miss Crawford's side as she made some laughing answer, was sorrowfull food for Fanny's observation; and finding herself quite unable to attend as she ought to Mrs. Grant, by whose side she was now following the others, she had nearly resolved on going home immediately, and only waited for courage to say so, when the sound of the great clock at Mansfield Park, striking three, made her feel that she had really been much longer absent than usual, and brought the previous self-inquiry of whether she should take leave or not just then, and how, to a very speedy issue.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
