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Adverb: fastest fãs-tist- Most quickly
- quickest Adjective: fast (faster,fastest) fãst- 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" - (of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds
"a fast road"; "grass courts are faster than clay" - Resistant to destruction or fading
"fast colours" - Unrestrained by convention or morality
"fast women"; - debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous - Hurried and brief
"a fast visit"; - flying, quick - Securely fixed in place
- firm, immobile - Unwavering in devotion to friend, vow or cause
"fast friends"; - firm, loyal, truehearted - (of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time
"a fast lens" - (used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time
"my watch is fast" - (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 Fast, Daniel |