speeding

C2+ Topic:Actions & Processes

US /ˈspidɪŋ/ UK /ˈspiːdɪŋ/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
the act of driving faster than the legal limit

He was fined for speeding through the quiet residential zone.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · the act of driving faster... racinghasteningrushing

Opposites

dawdlingcrawling

Word family

Related forms speed speedy speedily

Etymology

The gerund/participle of speed + -ing; speed descends from Old English spēd ('success, swiftness'), from Proto-Germanic *spōdiz.

spēd Old English *spōdiz Proto-Germanic

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Topics

Actions & Processes Word Formation & Derivatives

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# speeding

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈspidɪŋ/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈspiːdɪŋ/

## Meanings
1. the act of driving faster than the legal limit

## Examples
- He was fined for speeding through the quiet residential zone.

## Synonyms
- racing
- hastening
- rushing

## Antonyms
- dawdling
- crawling

## Related Forms
- speed
- speedy
- speedily

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: spēd
- Root: *spōdiz

## Etymology
The gerund/participle of speed + -ing; speed descends from Old English spēd ('success, swiftness'), from Proto-Germanic *spōdiz.

## AI Etymology
Speeding has a divided etymological history: The gerund/participle of speed + -ing; speed descends from Old English spēd ('success, swiftness'), from Proto-Germanic *spōdiz. The historical chain includes Old English spēd and Proto-Germanic *spōdiz. Older glosses in the chain include "success, swiftness", which help explain the semantic range of the modern word. Morphologically, speeding is best read as compound, suffixal formation, and borrowing, yielding an English noun and adjective shaped by both form history and later usage. In current English it functions as a noun and adjective, with the sense "the act of driving faster than the legal limit". related forms include speed, speedy, and speedily. The result is an English noun and adjective whose etymology preserves the older forms while supporting the word's specialized modern meaning.

## Topics
- Actions & Processes
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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