expeditious
adj/ɛkspɪˈdɪʃəs/
Etymology
From Middle English expedycius (“useful, fitting”), from Latin expedītus (“disengaged, ready, convenient, prompt; unfettered, unencumbered”), past participle of expediō.
Definitions
Fast, prompt, speedy.
- Near-synonym: expedited
- Our coachman and horses are so extremely expeditious!—I believe we drive faster than anybody.
- An “expeditious cessation of hostilities” is essential to “stabilise European economies, prevent unintended escalation or expansion of the war and re-establish strategic stability with Russia”, the document says.
Completed or done with efficiency and speed
Completed or done with efficiency and speed; facilitating speed.
- Near-synonym: expedited
- Now, there was a sort of rough-and-ready law in Ireland in those days which was of great convenience to persons desirous of expeditious justice[…].
The neighborhood
- neighborexpedient
- neighborexpedite
- neighborexpedition
- neighborexpeditionary
- neighborexpeditiously
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for expeditious. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA