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Adverb: fastest  fãs-tist
  1. Most quickly
    - quickest
Adjective: fast (faster,fastest)  fãst
  1. Acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly
    "fast film"; "on the fast track in school"; "set a fast pace"; "a fast car"
     
  2. (of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds
    "a fast road"; "grass courts are faster than clay"
     
  3. Resistant to destruction or fading
    "fast colours"
     
  4. Unrestrained by convention or morality
    "fast women";
    - debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous
     
  5. Hurried and brief
    "a fast visit";
    - flying, quick
     
  6. Securely fixed in place
    - firm, immobile
     
  7. Unwavering in devotion to friend, vow or cause
    "fast friends";
    - firm, loyal, truehearted
     
  8. (of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time
    "a fast lens"
     
  9. (used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time
    "my watch is fast"
     
  10. (music) at a rapid tempo
    "the band played a fast fox trot"

See also: accelerated, alacritous, allegretto, allegro, andantino, blistering, causative, double-quick, express, faithful, fast-breaking, fastness, fast-paced, fixed, fleet, high-speed, high-velocity, hot, hurried, hurrying, immediate, immoral, imperviable, impervious, instant, instantaneous, meteoric, nippy [Brit, informal], prestissimo, presto, prompt, quick, rapid, red-hot, scurrying, smart, smooth, speed, speedy, straightaway, sudden, swift, swiftness, vivace, windy, winged

Antonym: slow

Encyclopedia: Fastest

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