All swift synonyms
swift
S s adjective swift
- cracking β You use cracking to describe something you think is very good or exciting.
- winged β having wings.
- quick β done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- nimble β quick and light in movement; moving with ease; agile; active; rapid: nimble feet.
- expeditious β Done with speed and efficiency.
- zippy β lively; peppy.
- fast β moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.
- fleet β an arm of the sea; inlet.
- expeditive β (obsolete) Performing with speed.
- instant β an infinitesimal or very short space of time; a moment: They arrived not an instant too soon.
- racing β a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing.
- nippy β chilly or cold: morning air that feels a bit nippy.
- nighthawk β any of several longwinged, American goatsuckers of the genus Chordeiles, related to the whippoorwill, especially C. minor, having variegated black, white, and buff plumage.
adv swift
- chop chop β pidgin English for quickly
- at once β If you do something at once, you do it immediately.
- in short order β an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- full tilt β at the full potential, speed, energy, forcefulness, etc.
- hurriedly β moving or working rapidly, especially forced or required to hurry, as a person.
- double-quick β very quick or rapid.
- fleetly β swift; rapid: to be fleet of foot; a fleet horse.
- in high gear β Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- like a shot β a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
adj swift
- cursory β A cursory glance or examination is a brief one in which you do not pay much attention to detail.
- alacritous β cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
- chop-chop β with haste; quickly.
- alar β relating to, resembling, or having wings or alae
- hot and cold β (Idiomatic) Ambivalent; having conflicting emotions.
- asap β asap is an abbreviation for 'as soon as possible'.
- agile β Someone who is agile can move quickly and easily.
- dissolute β indifferent to moral restraints; given to immoral or improper conduct; licentious; dissipated.
- hasty β moving or acting with haste; speedy; quick; hurried.
- alate β having wings or winglike extensions
- cyclonic β of or relating to a cyclone.
- dizzying β having a sensation of whirling and a tendency to fall; giddy; vertiginous.
- hypersonic β noting or pertaining to speed that is at least five times that of sound in the same medium.
- high-speed β designed to operate or operating at a high speed: a high-speed drill.
- flasher β a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
- in nothing flat β no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- half-assed β insufficient or haphazard; not fully planned or developed.
- hurried β moving or working rapidly, especially forced or required to hurry, as a person.
- meteoric β of, relating to, or consisting of meteors.
- blue streak β anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
- impetuous β of, relating to, or characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion, etc.; impulsive: an impetuous decision; an impetuous person.
- feathered β clothed, covered, or provided with feathers, as a bird or an arrow.
- like mad β mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
- like a bat out of hell β very fast
- impulsive β actuated or swayed by emotional or involuntary impulses: an impulsive child.
adverb swift
- expeditiously β In an expeditious manner.
- quickly β with speed; rapidly; very soon.