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Adverb: quickly  kwik-lee
  1. With rapid movements
    "he works quickly";
    - rapidly, speedily, chop-chop, apace
     
  2. With little or no delay
    "the rescue squad arrived quickly";
    - promptly, quick, responsively
     
  3. Without taking pains
    "he looked quickly through the magazine";
    - cursorily

Antonym: slowly

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