Word.ws English Dictionary

swiftest

swiftest is the superlative form of swift.

Meaning of swift

Adjective

swift (comparative swifter, superlative swiftest)

  1. Fast; quick; rapid.
    • swift action
  2. Capable of moving at high speeds.
  3. (informal) Quick-thinking; bright.
    • That's what limos do — advertise, and he should have known that. But, as I told you before, officer, he's not too swift.2011, Paul A. Lavallee, Firewatch, page 44

See all 17 meanings of swift

Questions about swiftest

What is swiftest the superlative form of?
Swiftest is the superlative form of swift.

Words near swiftest in the dictionary

  1. swiftens
  2. swifter
  3. swiftered
  4. swiftering
  5. swifters
  6. swiftest
  7. swiftfoot
  8. swiftfooted
  9. swiftfootedness
  10. swifthanded
  11. Swiftian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: swiftest (page history and authors); swift (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “swiftest.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/swiftest. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.