SOONEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does soonest mean? 

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

1. with the least delay

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOONEST (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With the least delay

Synonyms:

earliest; soonest

Context example:

the soonest I can arrive is 3 P.M.

 Context examples 

“YOU hold your tongue, mother,” he returned; “least said, soonest mended.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's life—uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which 'smell sweet, and blossom in the dust', the self-forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Least said, soonest mended!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)