quickness
81dispatch — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. send; expedite; kill; accomplish. n. message, telegram; promptness, expedition, haste, speed; consummation, killing. See completion, news, conduct, earliness. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To send… …
82haste — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Swiftness Nouns haste, urgency; dispatch; acceleration, spurt, forced march, rush, dash; velocity; precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness; impatience, impetuosity; expedition, earliness; hurry,… …
83velocity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Speed Nouns 1. velocity, speed, celerity, swiftness, rapidity, expedition (see haste); acceleration; hurry, spurt, rush, dash; smart, lively, swift, or spanking pace; flying, flight; gallop, canter, trot …
84fleetness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. quickness, velocity, rapidity; see speed . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Rapidness of movement or activity: celerity, dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness, haste, hurry, hustle, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speed,… …
85intelligent — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [ Said of persons or beings ] Syn. clever, bright, astute, acute, smart, brilliant, perceptive, well informed, resourceful, profound, penetrating, original, exceptional, perspicacious, keen, imaginative, inventive,… …
86celerity — I (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. speed, quickness, alacrity, haste, dispatch, expedition, swiftness. ANT.: slowness, *snail s pace, leisureliness II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Rapidness of movement or activity: dispatch, expedition,… …
87speed — [OE] Speed originally meant ‘success, prosperity’ – and when you wish someone Godspeed, you are wishing them ‘good fortune’. Largely, though, it is the secondary sense ‘quickness’, which first emerged in the late Old English period, that has… …
88speed — {{11}}speed (n.) O.E. sped success, prosperity, advancement, from P.Gmc. *spodiz (Cf. O.S. spod success, Du. spoed haste, speed, O.H.G. spuot success, O.S. spodian to cause to succeed, M.Du. spoeden, O.H.G. spuoten to haste ), from PIE …
89quick — [[t]kwɪ̱k[/t]] ♦ quicker, quickest 1) ADJ GRADED Someone or something that is quick moves or does things with great speed. You ll have to be quick. The flight leaves in about three hours... I think I m a reasonably quick learner... Europe has… …
90promptness — n. Readiness, quickness, alacrity, alertness, promptitude, activity, quickness of decision …
