All pdq synonyms
P.D.Q.
P p adj pdq
- like crazy — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- chop chop — pidgin English for quickly
- chop-chop — with haste; quickly.
- hasty — moving or acting with haste; speedy; quick; hurried.
- hypersonic — noting or pertaining to speed that is at least five times that of sound in the same medium.
- in nothing flat — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
- like mad — mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
- like a bat out of hell — very fast
- double-time — to cause to move in double time: Double-time the troops to the mess hall.
adv pdq
- at once — If you do something at once, you do it immediately.
- instanter — immediately; at once.
- instantly — immediately; at once.
- immediately — without lapse of time; without delay; instantly; at once: Please telephone him immediately.
- hereupon — upon or on this.
- fleetly — swift; rapid: to be fleet of foot; a fleet horse.
- like a shot — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- any more — If something does not happen or is not true any more or any longer, it has stopped happening or is no longer true.
adverb pdq
- nowadays — at the present day; in these times: Few people do their laundry by hand nowadays.
- expeditiously — In an expeditious manner.
- now — at the present time or moment: You are now using a dictionary.
adjective pdq
- flashing — a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
- quickened — Simple past tense and past participle of quicken.
- fast — moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.
- quickie — a book, story, movie, etc., usually trivial in quality, requiring only a short time to produce.
- expeditive — (obsolete) Performing with speed.