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All fleet-footed synonyms

fleet-foot·ed
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adj fleet-footed

  • rapid — occurring within a short time; happening speedily: rapid growth.
  • unexpected — not expected; unforeseen; surprising: an unexpected pleasure; an unexpected development.
  • hasty — moving or acting with haste; speedy; quick; hurried.
  • nimble — quick and light in movement; moving with ease; agile; active; rapid: nimble feet.
  • sudden — happening, coming, made, or done quickly, without warning, or unexpectedly: a sudden attack.
  • abrupt — An abrupt change or action is very sudden, often in a way which is unpleasant.
  • quick — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
  • speedy — characterized by speed; rapid; swift; fast.
  • short — having little length; not long.
  • prompt — done, performed, delivered, etc., at once or without delay: a prompt reply.
  • flying — making flight or passing through the air; that flies: a flying insect; an unidentified flying object.
  • spanking — to strike (a person, usually a child) with the open hand, a slipper, etc., especially on the buttocks, as in punishment.
  • precipitate — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
  • ready — completely prepared or in fit condition for immediate action or use: troops ready for battle; Dinner is ready.
  • fleet — an arm of the sea; inlet.
  • cracking — You use cracking to describe something you think is very good or exciting.
  • screaming — uttering screams.
  • breakneck — If you say that something happens or travels at breakneck speed, you mean that it happens or travels very fast.
  • headlong — with the head foremost; headfirst: to plunge headlong into the water.
  • hurried — moving or working rapidly, especially forced or required to hurry, as a person.
  • on the double — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • pronto — promptly; quickly.
  • short-lived — living or lasting only a little while.
  • snappy — Snappy Video Snapshot
  • winged — having wings.
  • alacritous — cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
  • barrelling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
  • double-quick — very quick or rapid.
  • in nothing flat — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
  • like crazy — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
  • like mad — mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
  • speedball — a game similar to soccer with the chief difference that a player catching the ball on the fly can pass it with the hands.
  • supersonic — greater than the speed of sound waves through air.
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