Antonyms for speed
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : speed |
| Phonetic Transcription : spid |
Definition of speed
Origin :- Old English sped "success, prosperity, advancement," from Proto-Germanic *spodiz (cf. Old Saxon spod "success," Dutch spoed "haste, speed," Old High German spuot "success," Old Saxon spodian "to cause to succeed," Middle Dutch spoeden, Old High German spuoten "to haste"), from PIE *spo-ti- "speed," from *spe- "to thrive, prosper" (cf. Sanskrit sphayate "increases," Latin sperare "to hope," Old Church Slavonic spechu "endeavor," Lithuanian speju "to have leisure").
- Meaning "quickness of motion or progress" emerged in late Old English (usually adverbially, in dative plural, e.g. spedum feran), emerging fully in early Middle English. Meaning "gear of a machine" is attested from 1866. Meaning "methamphetamine, or a related drug," first attested 1967, from its effect on users. Speed bump is 1975; figurative sense is 1990s. Full speed is recorded from late 14c. Speed reading first attested 1965. Speedball "mix of cocaine and morphine or heroin" is recorded from 1909.
- noun rate of motion, often a high rate
- verb move along quickly
- All started at speed to meet her, but presently Mrs. Raymount sank on the grass.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- I pray you to speed a bolt against yonder shield with all your force.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Here was speed, and with such stride—strong, and straight, and true!
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- He ran with all the speed he had ever attained at a track meet.
- Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
- Ye're planning to speed that thing before ye've got it off the jacks.
- Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
- The speed at which she was going was like having wings on her body.
- Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
- The speed was increased from about 39 miles per hour to 42 1/2 miles per hour.
- Extract from : « Flying Machines » by W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell
- But all this diligence and speed were not without an object.
- Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
- I was impressed not so much with the speed of the manufacture as the character of the factory.
- Extract from : « American Notes » by Rudyard Kipling
- Then he drew himself upon his plank and swam, doubling his speed.
- Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
Synonyms for speed
- acceleration
- activity
- advance
- agility
- aid
- alacrity
- assist
- barrel
- belt
- bomb
- boost
- bowl over
- breeze
- briskness
- career
- celerity
- clip
- cover ground
- cut along
- dispatch
- eagerness
- expedite
- expedition
- facilitate
- flash
- fleetness
- fly
- further
- gait
- gallop
- gather momentum
- gear up
- get a move on
- get moving
- get under way
- go all out
- go fast
- go like the wind
- haste
- hasten
- headway
- help
- hightail
- hurry
- hustle
- impel
- legerity
- lick
- liveliness
- lose no time
- make haste
- momentum
- open up throttle
- pace
- precipitancy
- precipitation
- press on
- promote
- promptitude
- promptness
- quicken
- quickness
- race
- rapidity
- rapidness
- readiness
- ride
- run
- rush
- rustle
- sail
- snap
- spring
- steam
- step on it
- swiftness
- tear
- urge
- urgency
- velocity
- whiz
- zoom
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