SPEEDY (speedier, speediest)

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Irregular inflected forms: speedier    , speediest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does speedy mean? 

• SPEEDY (adjective)
  The adjective SPEEDY has 2 senses:

1. characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed

2. accomplished rapidly and without delay

  Familiarity information: SPEEDY used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPEEDY (adjective)

Comparative: speedier   
Superlative: speediest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed

Synonyms:

rapid; speedy

Context example:

a speedy errand boy

Similar:

fast (acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly)

Derivation:

speed (changing location rapidly)

speed (distance travelled per unit time)

speediness (a rate that is rapid)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Accomplished rapidly and without delay

Synonyms:

quick; speedy

Context example:

he has a right to a speedy trial

Similar:

fast (acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly)

Derivation:

speed (a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens)

speediness (a rate that is rapid)

 Context examples 

Swiftly therefore shall her post-boy drive through the village, amid the gaze of Sunday groups, and speedy shall be her descent from it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

A speedy cure must not be hoped, but everything was going on as well as the nature of the case admitted.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

All that remained to be done was to be speedy; and, therefore staying only till she could leave Mrs. Jennings's maid with her sister, she hurried down stairs.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

They were all astonished; and Mr. Bennet, who could by no means wish for so speedy a return, immediately said: But is there not danger of Lady Catherine's disapprobation here, my good sir?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Consigned to which, and to a speedy end (for mental torture is not supportable beyond a certain point, and that point I feel I have attained), my course is run.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Electrons and positrons are among the speedy particles known as cosmic rays, which originate beyond the solar system.

(NASA’s Fermi Mission Links Nearby Pulsar’s Gamma-ray ‘Halo’ to Antimatter Puzzle, NASA)

There was no promise of a speedy departure in his composed bearing and his comfortable attitude.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Such speedy particles are collectively called “dark radiation” and include previously known particles like neutrinos, which are created in nuclear reactions and radioactive decays.

(Measuring Growth of Universe Reveals a Mystery, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This speedy appearance of life on Earth fits with other evidence of recently discovered 3,700 million year old sedimentary mounds that were shaped by microorganisms, first author, PhD student Matthew Dodd explained.

(World's Oldest Fossils Unearthed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Jim knew that his chance of a speedy victory was slipping away from him, and he came back again and again as swift as a flash to the attack without being able to get past the passive defence of the trained fighting-man.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)