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speedy

/ˈspiː.di/

speedy adjective: proceeding with or characterized by high speed; rapid.

Adjective

speedy (comparative speedier, superlative speediest)

  1. Proceeding with or characterized by high speed; rapid.
    • " Without further parley, upon their knees they fell most devoutly, and for helpe on heaven never ceased extensively to intercessionate God, for his speedie recoverie.1594, Thomas Nash, “The Terrors of the Night”, in Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books, volume I, published 1807, →OCLC, page 270
    • They turned out to be speedy machines and earned the sobriquet "Greyhounds", giving excellent performances on the Exeter run.1951 November, David R. Webb, “The Drummond 4-4-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 774

Verb

speedy (third-person singular simple present speedies, present participle speedying, simple past and past participle speedied)

  1. (transitive) To process in a faster than normal, accelerated way.
    • “[…] the Treaty between the King and the Parliament may be speedied; and that Care may be taken, to prevent the casting of the Two Kingdoms into War and Blood.”1647, [uncredited], Journals of the House of Lords (House of Lords), volume 10, page 389
    • […] for the purpose of proceeding to the immediate sale of the goods under seizure, with the view of speedying the exercise of their rights on the proceeds of the sale of the goods seized.1871, The Mauritius Reports, page 46
    Synonyms:
    speed up
  2. (transitive) To apply the speedy rule in an online community (often the deletion rule); to speedy delete.
    • The guy is *not* so obviously insignificant that speedying him is appropriate.
    Synonyms:
    speedy delete

Proper noun capitalized: Speedy

Speedy (plural Speedys)

  1. A surname.

speedy meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

speedy in Tamil

விரைவாக, கடு

speedy in Urdu

عاجل, جلد, تیز رفتار

speedy in Bengali

দ্রুত, ক্ষিপ্র

speedy in Malayalam

താമസമില്ലാത്ത, ക്ഷിപ്രമായ, ചുറുചുറുപ്പുള്ള
More languagesFewer languages
speedy in Kannada
ಉತ್ತಾಲ
speedy in Odia
ଶୀଘ୍ର śighra
speedy in Sanskrit
ज já, एव éva
speedy in Thai
เร็ว reo
speedy in Vietnamese
sẵn sàng

Examples of speedy in a sentence

  • Speedy, worldwide, accessible delivery of news through the Web has made newspapers obsolete.
  • The article should be speedy deleted, as a blatant and obvious hoax.
  • He feared the speedy decline of all manhood.

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Synonyms of speedy

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Antonyms

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Forms of speedy

Adjective
comparativespeedier
superlativespeediest
Verb
third-person singular presentspeedies
present participlespeedying
past participlespeedied
pastspeedied
Proper noun
pluralSpeedys

Origin of speedy

From Middle English spedy, spedi, from Old English spēdiġ (“having good speed, lucky, prosperous; having means, wealthy, opulent, rich in material wealth; rich in, abounding in, abundant, plenteous, copious; powerful”), from Proto-Germanic *spōdigaz (“successful, hurried”), equivalent to speed + -y. Cognate with Scots speedy (“speedy”), Dutch spoedig (“speedy, swift, rapid, quick”), German sputig, spudig (“industrious, speedy”).

Scottish surname from an adjectival or diminutive form of Speed.

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Questions about speedy

What does speedy mean?
Speedy means proceeding with or characterized by high speed; rapid.
What is speedy in Tamil?
Speedy in Tamil is விரைவாக, கடு. See Speedy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is speedy?
Speedy can be an adjective, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce speedy?
Speedy is pronounced /ˈspiː.di/.

Words near speedy in the dictionary

  1. speedwells
  2. speedwise
  3. speedwork
  4. speedworthiness
  5. speedwriting
  6. speedy
  7. speedy delete
  8. speedy deleted
  9. speedy deletes
  10. speedy deleting
  11. speedy deletion

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: speedy (page history and authors); Speedy (page history and authors); speedy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); speedy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); speedy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); speedy (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); speedy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଶୀଘ୍ର (Odia) (page history and authors); एव (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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