QUICKEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quickest mean? 

• QUICKEST (adverb)
  The adverb QUICKEST has 1 sense:

1. most quickly

  Familiarity information: QUICKEST used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUICKEST (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Most quickly

Synonyms:

fastest; quickest

Pertainym:

quick (accomplished rapidly and without delay)

 Context examples 

We must do whatever is to be done quickest, and I think our feelings will lose no time there.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“Heave in! Lively! All hands tail on!” Wolf Larsen shouted, springing himself to the rope in advance of the quickest.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It will take her at the quickest speed she has ever made at least three weeks to reach Varna; but we can travel overland to the same place in three days.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

One eye was disfigured and sightless from a wound, but the other looked from my father to myself with the quickest and shrewdest of expressions.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All that could be done was, to sit down at that end of the counter which seemed to promise the quickest succession; one gentleman only was standing there, and it is probable that Elinor was not without hope of exciting his politeness to a quicker despatch.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

There was time only for the quickest arrangement of mind.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

And then away for home! away to the quickest and nearest train! away from this cursed spot, from this cursed land, where the devil and his children still walk with earthly feet!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Full of thanks, and full of news, Miss Bates knew not which to give quickest.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Nay, friend Jonathan, he said, in this, the quickest way home is the longest way, so your proverb say.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)