quickly

From Middle English quykly, quikliche, quicliche, cwikliche, cwickliche, from Old English cwiculīċe. By surface analysis, quick +‎ -ly.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwɪkli/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkli

quickly (comparative quicklier or more quickly, superlative quickliest or most quickly)

1. Rapidly; with speed; fast; with expedition.

   Synonym: at speed

   Luckily, the error was quickly corrected.

2. Very soon.

   If we go this way, we'll get there quickly.

   • 2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport‎^[1], archived from the original on 21 July 2022:

     Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicini's first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboa's snap-shot.
     Two more top-class stops followed quickly afterwards, first from Natcho's rasping shot which was heading into the top corner, and then to deny Ryazantsev at his near post.

   • 2023 February 2, Patrick Noack, “Humans are terrible at planning for the future: Here's how we can change that”, in CNN‎^[2], archived from the original on 3 March 2023:

     There are eight principles in all, but three are really important if we want to shift quickly and inclusively toward a longer-term mode of thinking and acting.

• Although the comparative (quicklier) and superlative (quickliest) one-word forms exist and are and have been in limited use, the two-word forms (more quickly and most quickly) are much more common.

• quick (adjective and adverb)