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Quick

Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate.

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Active 84% connected

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain acti…

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Active 84% connected

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain acti…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Excitable 84% connected

Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.

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Excitable 84% connected

Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.

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Fast 84% connected

To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.

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Fast 84% connected

To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.

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Hurried 84% connected

Urged on; hastened; going or working at speed; as, a hurried writer; a hurried life.

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Hurried 84% connected

Urged on; hastened; going or working at speed; as, a hurried writer; a hurried life.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Intelligent 84% connected

Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being.

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Intelligent 84% connected

Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being.

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Area 76% connected

Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Region 76% connected

One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general…

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Quickness 74% connected

The condition or quality of being quick or living; life.

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Quickness 74% connected

The condition or quality of being quick or living; life.

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Synonym 12

Agile 92% connected

Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fast 92% connected

To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Flying 92% connected

of Fly

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Immediate 92% connected

Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Nimble 92% connected

Light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Prompt 92% connected

A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Promptly 92% connected

In a prompt manner.

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Quickly 92% connected

Speedily; with haste or celerity; soon; without delay; quick.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ready 92% connected

Prepared for what one is about to do or experience; equipped or supplied with what is needed for some act or event; prepared for immediate movement o…

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Speedy 92% connected

Not dilatory or slow; quick; swift; nimble; hasty; rapid in motion or performance; as, a speedy flight; on speedy foot.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Spry 92% connected

Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Warm 92% connected

Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fast 92% connected

To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.

general 78% interchangeable

Quick overlaps with fast, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

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