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- [swift]
- /swɪft/
- /swɪft/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [swift]
- /swɪft/
Definitions of swift word
- adjective swift moving or capable of moving with great speed or velocity; fleet; rapid: a swift ship. 1
- adjective swift coming, happening, or performed quickly or without delay: a swift decision. 1
- adjective swift quick or prompt to act or respond: swift to jump to conclusions. 1
- adjective swift Slang. quick to perceive or understand; smart; clever: You can't cheat him, he's too swift. 1
- abbreviation SWIFT swiftly. 1
- noun swift Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication: an international consortium that routes instructions concerning transfer of funds between financial institutions. 1
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Origin of swift
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English (adj. and adv.), Old English (adj.); akin to Old English swīfan to revolve, Old Norse svīfa to rove; see swivel
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Parts of speech for Swift
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
swift popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
swift usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for swift
adj swift
- alacritous — cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
- alar — relating to, resembling, or having wings or alae
- alate — having wings or winglike extensions
- asap — asap is an abbreviation for 'as soon as possible'.
- barreling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
adv swift
- at once — If you do something at once, you do it immediately.
- chop chop — pidgin English for quickly
- double-quick — very quick or rapid.
- fleetly — swift; rapid: to be fleet of foot; a fleet horse.
- full tilt — at the full potential, speed, energy, forcefulness, etc.
adjective swift
- cracking — You use cracking to describe something you think is very good or exciting.
- depthless — immeasurably deep; fathomless
- expeditious — Done with speed and efficiency.
- expeditive — (obsolete) Performing with speed.
- express — By express train or delivery service.
adverb swift
- expeditiously — In an expeditious manner.
- quickly — with speed; rapidly; very soon.
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