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quickly

adv
/ˈkwɪkli/

Etymology

From Middle English quykly, quikliche, quicliche, cwikliche, cwickliche, from Old English cwiculīċe. By surface analysis, quick + -ly.

  1. inherited from cwiculīċe
  2. inherited from quykly

Definitions

  1. Rapidly

    Rapidly; with speed; fast; with expedition.

    • Luckily, the error was quickly corrected.

  2. Very soon.

    • If we go this way, we'll get there quickly.
    • There are eight principles in all, but three are really important if we want to shift quickly and inclusively toward a longer-term mode of thinking and acting.

The neighborhood

Derived

as quickly as possible, death-come-quickly

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at quickly. 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.

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A definitional loop anchored at quickly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at quickly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA