briefly
adv/ˈbɹiːfli/
Etymology
From Middle English breefly, breffly, brevely, brevelike, breveliche, equivalent to brief + -ly.
- inherited from breefly
Definitions
In a brief manner, summarily.
- He covered the subject briefly in his book.
For a brief period.
- He only worked here briefly.
- Instead, ddakji was played for dramatic effect earlier in the season — pitting two men who had forged a sweet bond against each other, making one of them briefly believe he’d been eliminated by his friend.
To be brief, in short.
- Briefly, I am not happy about what happened, but no one will be losing their job.
The neighborhood
- synonymsummarily
- synonymtemporarily
- synonymtransiently
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at briefly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at briefly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at briefly
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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