speedily C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities US /ˈspidəli/ UK /ˈspiːdɪli/ See IPA manual Meanings 1 adv in a quick or rapid manner The committee speedily approved the emergency funding. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 adv · in a quick or rapid manner quicklyrapidlyswiftlypromptlyhastilyfast ↔ Opposites slowlysluggishlyleisurely Word family Related forms speedspeedyspeediness Etymology AI details From speedy + -ly; speedy derives from speed, from Old English spēd ('success, swiftness'), from Proto-Germanic *spōdiz. spēd Old English *spōdiz Proto-Germanic View etymology graph -> Topics Describing Qualities Word Formation & Derivatives External links Google Images Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary # speedily **Type:** Word **Level:** C2+ **Part of speech:** adv **IPA (US):** /ˈspidəli/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈspiːdɪli/ ## Meanings 1. in a quick or rapid manner ## Examples - The committee speedily approved the emergency funding. ## Synonyms - quickly - rapidly - swiftly - promptly - hastily - fast ## Antonyms - slowly - sluggishly - leisurely ## Related Forms - speed - speedy - speediness ## Roots and Affixes - Root: spēd - Root: *spōdiz ## Etymology From speedy + -ly; speedy derives from speed, from Old English spēd ('success, swiftness'), from Proto-Germanic *spōdiz. ## AI Etymology Speedily comes from speedy + -ly; speedy derives from speed, from Old English spēd ('success, swiftness'), from Proto-Germanic *spōdiz. The historical chain includes Old English spēd and Proto-Germanic *spōdiz. The quoted older sense, "success, swiftness," supplies the immediate semantic anchor for speedily. The formation is best read as suffixal and borrowed: the word speedily carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a adv, "in a quick or rapid manner". Related English forms include speed, speedy, and speediness. The result is a adv whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization. ## Topics - Describing Qualities - Word Formation & Derivatives markdown