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# speedy

«speedy» in Mova's school dictionary: **fast, moving or happening quickly: a speedy car, a speedy…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (speedy, speedier, speediest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Speedy means fast, moving or happening quickly: a speedy car, a speedy runner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speedy/#m1)

2) Speedy also means happening soon, without delay: "Get well soon and have a speedy recovery." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speedy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it is a friendly, informal word for fast. Cards often say "wishing you a speedy recovery". In stories it describes animals or characters. Phrases: "speedy recovery", "speedy service", "speedy delivery", "speedy reply".

### examples

- The cheetah is the speediest land animal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speedy/#x1)
- Thanks for your speedy reply! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speedy/#x2)
- We wish Grandpa a speedy recovery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speedy/#x3)
- The shop promised speedy delivery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speedy/#x4)
- My speedy little dog always wins the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speedy/#x5)
- We had a speedy lunch before the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speedy/#x6)
- A speedy decision is not always a good one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speedy/#x7)
- As conductor of shades, Hermes was always invoked by the dying to grant them a safe and speedy passage across the Styx. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speedy/#x8)

### note

Comparative: speedier, speediest (y to i). Noun: speed; adverb: speedily. In maths, "speed" is distance divided by time; "speedy" is just a describing word.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «speedy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/speedy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.