QUICKLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quickly mean? 

• QUICKLY (adverb)
  The adverb QUICKLY has 3 senses:

1. with speed

2. with little or no delay

3. without taking pains

  Familiarity information: QUICKLY used as an adverb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUICKLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With speed

Synonyms:

apace; chop-chop; in short order; quickly; rapidly; speedily

Context example:

John got ready in short order

Antonym:

slowly (without speed ('slow' is sometimes used informally for 'slowly'))

Pertainym:

quick (accomplished rapidly and without delay)

Sense 2

Meaning:

With little or no delay

Synonyms:

promptly; quick; quickly

Context example:

come here, quick!

Pertainym:

quick (accomplished rapidly and without delay)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Without taking pains

Synonyms:

cursorily; quickly

Context example:

he looked cursorily through the magazine

Pertainym:

quick (hurried and brief)

 Context examples 

“Favourites?” repeated Mr. Creakle, with the veins in his forehead swelling quickly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The researchers found that reefs with higher copper concentrations didn’t recover from disease as quickly.

(Sea fan corals face new threat in warming ocean: copper, National Science Foundation)

The researchers used advanced technologies to quickly and accurately analyze the viral genomes.

(Genetics of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak, NIH)

But this, too, quickly died down and ceased.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It might rotate around its axis quickly the way Earth does or it might be tidally locked to its sun, with one side of the planet always lit and the other always dark.

(Simulations show planet orbiting Proxima Centauri could have liquid water, Wikinews)

The bear ran away quickly, and was soon out of sight behind the trees.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory later observed that the source - known as an ultraluminous X-ray source, or ULX - had disappeared just as quickly.

(NASA Satellite Spots a Mystery That's Gone in a Flash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

If validated in larger studies, this approach may prove to be a relatively simple way to quickly restore a person’s healthy microbiome following intensive antimicrobial therapy.

(Fecal microbiota transplantation helps restore beneficial bacteria in cancer patients, National Institutes of Health)

A type of lymphoma that grows and spreads quickly and has severe symptoms.

(Aggressive lymphoma, NCI Dictionary)

In medicine, describes a tumor or disease that forms, grows, or spreads quickly.

(Aggressive, NCI Dictionary)