fast

I 1. adjective

1)

a fast pace

Syn:

speedy, quick, swift, rapid; fast-moving, fast-paced, high-speed, turbo, sporty; accelerated, express, blistering, breakneck, pell-mell; hasty, hurried; informal nippy, zippy, blinding, supersonic; literary fleet

Ant:

slow

2)

he held the door fast

Syn:

secure, fastened, tight, firm, closed, shut; immovable, unbudgeable

Ant:

loose

3)

a fast color

Syn:

indelible, lasting, permanent, stable

Ant:

temporary

4)

fast friends

Syn:

loyal, devoted, faithful, firm, steadfast, staunch, true, bosom, inseparable; constant, enduring, unswerving

5)

a fast woman

Syn:

promiscuous, licentious, dissolute, debauched, impure, unchaste, wanton, abandoned, of easy virtue; sluttish, whorish; intemperate, immoderate, shameless, sinful, immoral; informal easy; dated loose

Ant:

chaste

2. adverb

1)

she drove fast

Syn:

quickly, rapidly, swiftly, speedily, briskly, at speed, at full tilt; hastily, hurriedly, in a hurry, posthaste, pell-mell; like a shot, like a flash, on the double, at the speed of light; informal lickety-split, PDQ (pretty damn quick), nippily, like (greased) lightning, hell-bent for leather, like mad, like the wind, like a bat out of hell; literary apace

Ant:

slowly

2)

his wheels were stuck fast

Syn:

securely, firmly, immovably, fixedly

3)

he's fast asleep

Syn:

deeply, sound, completely

4)

she lived fast and dangerously

Syn:

wildly, dissolutely, intemperately, immoderately, recklessly, self-indulgently, extravagantly

II 1. verb

we must fast and pray

Syn:

eat nothing, abstain from food, refrain from eating, go without food, go hungry, starve oneself; go on a hunger strike

Ant:

eat

2. noun

a five-day fast

Syn:

period of fasting, period of abstinence; hunger strike; diet

Ant:

feast