Word Meanings - SWIFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

to swapan to sweep, swipu a whip; cf. swifan to move quickly, to 1. Moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt. My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak,

Additional info about word: SWIFT

to swapan to sweep, swipu a whip; cf. swifan to move quickly, to 1. Moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt. My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. James i. 19. Swift of dispatch and easy of access. Dryden. And bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 Pet. ii. 1. 2. Of short continuance; passing away quickly. Shak. Note: Swift is often used in the formation of compounds which are generally self-explaining; as, swift-darting, swift-footed, swift- winged, etc. Syn. -- Quick; fleet; speedy; rapid; expeditious.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SWIFT)

• Agile
• Nimble
• active
• fleet
• brisk
• alert
• lithe
• prompt
• ready
• quick
• supple
• nimble
• swift
• sprightly
• Hasty
• Speedy
• rapid
• superficial
• hurried
• irascible
• impetuous
• reckless
• headlong
• crude
• incomplete
• undeveloped
• immature
• precipitate
• fiery
• passionate
• slight
• excitable
• rash
• cursory
• Quick
• Fast
• speedy
• expeditious
• hasty
• clever
• sharp
• shrewd
• adroit
• keen
• lively
• agile
• transient
• intelligent
• Rapid
• accelerated
• flying
• Early
• fast

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SWIFT)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to SWIFT)

• PRECIPITATELY
  In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.
• LIVELY
  1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• SUPPLEMENT
  The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180°; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle. Syn. -- Appendix. -- Appendix, Supplement. An appendix is that which
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• RAPID
  1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton. 2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth;
• EXCITABLE
  Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• RAPIDNESS
  Quality of being rapid; rapidity.
• ACCELERATOR
  One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• EARLY
  Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early. Those that me early shall find me. Prov. viii. 17. You must wake and call me early. Tennyson.
• LITHERLY
  Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy. He was waspish, arch, and litherly. Sir W. Scott.
• QUICKBEAM
  See TREE
• FLY-FISH
  To angle, using flies for bait. Walton.
• PROMPTLY
  In a prompt manner.
• BRISK
  1. Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick. Cheerily, boys; be brick awhile. Shak. Brick toil alternating with ready ease. Wordworth. 2. Full of spirit of life; effervescas, brick
• SELF-ACTIVE
  Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• WHITE FLY
  Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• BLITHE
  Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton. (more info) Icel. bli mild, gentle, Dan. & Sw. blid gentle, D. blijd blithe,
• FIREFLY
  Any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyridæ. Note: The common American species belong to the genera Photinus and Photuris, in which both sexes are winged. The name is also applied to luminous species of Elateridæ.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• VINEGAR FLY
  Any of several fruit flies, esp. Drosophila ampelopophila, which breed in imperfectly sealed preserves and in pickles.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• GADFLY
  Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies. Note: The sheep gadfly deposits its young in the nostrils of sheep, and the larvæ develop in the frontal sinuses. The common species which infests cattle deposits its