quickly

Questions about quickly

What does quickly mean?

quickly means "with speed". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quickly?

quickly has 2 syllables: quic-kly. The stress falls on "quic". In IPA it is /ˈkwɪkli/.

What is another word for quickly?

Close synonyms include rapidly, speedily, chop-chop, apace, in short order. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of quickly?

The recorded antonyms are slowly.

Is quickly a common word?

quickly is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.