1230 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ bɹˈiːfli], [ bɹˈiːfli], [ b_ɹ_ˈiː_f_l_i]

Similar words for briefly:

• early (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• awhile (adverb)
• in brief (adverb)
• other relevant words (adverb)
• quickly (adverb)
• all (adverb)
• awhile (adverb)
• concisely (adverb)
• continuously (adverb)
• early (adverb)
• for a short time (adverb)
• in brief (adverb)
• momentarily (adverb)
• shortly (adverb)
• transiently (adverb)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words
• other relevant words (noun)

How to use "briefly" in context?

Paraphrases for briefly

Synonyms for Briefly:

• adj.

  • early (adjective)
  • more oversoon,
  • over early,
  • be forehand,
  • pre mature,
  • un-anticipated,
  • overearly,
  • pre ceding,
  • over-soon,
  • un timely,
  • be-forehand,
  • Oversoon,
  • un timelier,
  • unanticipated,
  • most oversoon,
  • ahead time,
  • pre existent,
  • pre-existent,
  • more unanticipated,
  • pre maturer,
  • preexistent,
  • on the dot,
  • on short notice,
  • most overearly,
  • more matinal,
  • more overearly,
  • over-early,
  • un expected,
  • pre-ceding,
  • pre-maturer,
  • un anticipated,
  • un-timely,
  • before appointed time,
  • most preexistent,
  • un timeliest,
  • Matinal,
  • pre maturest,
  • over soon,
  • un-timelier,
  • more preexistent,
  • un-expected,
  • on dot,
  • un-timeliest.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • in summary,
  • early.

• adv

  • awhile (adverb)
  • for a little while,
  • for a while,
  • transiently,
  • not for long,
  • for a spell,
  • for a bit.
  • in brief (adverb)
  • in few words.
  • Other relevant words: (adverb)
  • transitorily,
  • not permanently,
  • awhile,
  • right now,
  • for a minute,
  • for a second,
  • for an instant,
  • temporarily,
  • for a short while,
  • momentarily,
  • impermanently.
  • quickly (adverb)
  • like a shot,
  • in a flash/like a flash/quick as a flash,
  • like mad.

• adv.

  • all (adverb)
  • briefly.
  • awhile (adverb)
  • for the moment.
  • concisely (adverb)
  • delicately,
  • abruptly,
  • scantily,
  • minutely,
  • meagerly,
  • in a nutshell,
  • to sum things up,
  • bluntly,
  • Paltrily,
  • incisively,
  • curtly,
  • punily,
  • narrowly,
  • brusquely,
  • compactly.
  • continuously (adverb)
  • away.
  • early (adverb)
  • Proximately,
  • ere long,
  • soonest.
  • for a short time (adverb)
  • in passing,
  • Fleetingly.
  • in brief (adverb)
  • in a few words.
  • momentarily (adverb)
  • for minute,
  • for a short time,
  • for instant,
  • for short time,
  • for second,
  • for short while.
  • shortly (adverb)
  • squatly,
  • stubbily,
  • lowly.
  • transiently (adverb)
  • restlessly,
  • rootlessly,
  • Evanescently,
  • Flickeringly,
  • cursorily,
  • Passingly,
  • instantaneously.

• n.

  •
  • passing,
  • floating,
  • inconstant,
  • temporary,
  • short-term,
  • variable.
  •
  • in effect,
  • hurriedly,
  • briskly,
  • on balance,
  • altogether,
  • quickly,
  • hastily,
  • words to that effect,
  • in the final/last analysis,
  • casually.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • mo,
  • brevity,
  • concise,
  • Compendiously,
  • terse,
  • dose,
  • crisp,
  • flurry,
  • gnomic,
  • quietly,
  • succinct,
  • blitz,
  • moment,
  • reticent,
  • instant,
  • short-range,
  • wee hours,
  • brief,
  • to cut a long story short,
  • very briefly,
  • say,
  • jag,
  • second 1,
  • shortish,
  • for a moment,
  • quiet,
  • jiffy,
  • abrupt,
  • bit,
  • fleeting,
  • well chosen,
  • trice,
  • concisely,
  • taut,
  • curt,
  • shortly,
  • in short,
  • cat,
  • pithy,
  • waste,
  • time,
  • twinkling,
  • quick,
  • in a word,
  • succinctly,
  • laconic,
  • bout,
  • evanescent,
  • in sum,
  • flutter,
  • wall,
  • taciturn,
  • sec,
  • monosyllabic,
  • few,
  • tersely,
  • short,
  • blink,
  • transient,
  • split second,
  • ephemeral,
  • msec,
  • short-lived,
  • minute 1,
  • momentary,
  • summarily,
  • tick,
  • subdued,
  • fit.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • while.
  •
  • being.
  • Other relevant words:
  • hazard,
  • derive,
  • bible,
  • epitomise,
  • conniption,
  • silence,
  • withhold,
  • interpret,
  • tuck,
  • eye blink,
  • ceremonious,
  • instantly,
  • on the whole,
  • angle,
  • fulfill,
  • charge,
  • chuck,
  • roundly,
  • dag,
  • designate,
  • caterpillar,
  • spue,
  • be,
  • enunciate,
  • pass,
  • forthright,
  • ingeminate,
  • system of weights,
  • just,
  • exemplify,
  • burthen,
  • equip,
  • ind.,
  • true,
  • ready,
  • bat,
  • quiesce,
  • scrunch,
  • nearly,
  • social function,
  • vagrant,
  • heavyset,
  • show,
  • beyond control,
  • add,
  • earliest,
  • relate,
  • dot,
  • burst,
  • tatty,
  • toast,
  • subsume,
  • truehearted,
  • temp,
  • hoo-ha,
  • recur,
  • case,
  • password,
  • squander,
  • understand,
  • formal,
  • point in time,
  • emaciate,
  • echo,
  • in all,
  • holy scripture,
  • fit out,
  • flashy,
  • surround,
  • tranquility,
  • inwards,
  • fence in,
  • aside,
  • tick off,
  • retread,
  • curriculum vitae,
  • dart,
  • aggressively,
  • flake,
  • of a sudden,
  • extemporary,
  • meet,
  • straightforward,
  • deduce,
  • ruckle,
  • covenant,
  • indium,
  • inch,
  • off-the-cuff,
  • collect,
  • effectively,
  • secant,
  • breaker point,
  • double,
  • lull,
  • pack,
  • unruffled,
  • missouri,
  • manoeuver,
  • click,
  • piffling,
  • small,
  • winkle,
  • item,
  • other,
  • inadequate,
  • honk,
  • frank,
  • gunpoint,
  • amass,
  • hush,
  • routine,
  • rot,
  • subaltern,
  • prevailing,
  • unglamorous,
  • blink away,
  • unseen,
  • joint,
  • book,
  • extrapolate,
  • sum,
  • square,
  • cliche,
  • computerized tomography,
  • unforeseen,
  • tidings,
  • lay out,
  • falsify,
  • base,
  • blow,
  • superman,
  • gimcrack,
  • retick,
  • fanfare,
  • bulwark,
  • symbolize,
  • kerfuffle,
  • all of a sudden,
  • repetition,
  • degraded,
  • on the button,
  • baseborn,
  • to-do,
  • opine,
  • hackneyed,
  • ado,
  • deaden,
  • all told,
  • implication,
  • hustle,
  • unretentive,
  • itemize,
  • crying,
  • liquidate,
  • purge,
  • dissipated,
  • clamant,
  • close,
  • guide,
  • hoo-hah,
  • fleetly,
  • take off,
  • paradigm,
  • barren,
  • flashgun,
  • dominant,
  • about,
  • irritably,
  • effective,
  • blink of an eye,
  • crude,
  • flashbulb,
  • schematic,
  • constrict,
  • fugitive,
  • put off,
  • good,
  • retiring,
  • flashing,
  • guesswork,
  • consume,
  • do in,
  • trite,
  • enjoin,
  • disconcert,
  • sententious,
  • scene,
  • safety blitz,
  • stop,
  • slant,
  • free weight,
  • modest,
  • accumulate,
  • jibe,
  • free-spoken,
  • mundane,
  • good book,
  • fence,
  • heartbeat,
  • trice up,
  • unglamourous,
  • flare,
  • flying,
  • variable star,
  • slenderly,
  • fiddling,
  • straight person,
  • imperatively,
  • tranquil,
  • tell,
  • transitory,
  • forgetful,
  • heterosexual person,
  • tranquilize,
  • eccentric,
  • promptly,
  • frosty,
  • restfully,
  • transience,
  • intimately,
  • get together,
  • word of honor,
  • induction,
  • too soon,
  • disturbance,
  • outside,
  • more or less,
  • wad,
  • upshot,
  • metre,
  • re-start,
  • permissive waste,
  • new york minute,
  • result,
  • run off,
  • kinky,
  • inductive reasoning,
  • cursory,
  • junior-grade,
  • humdrum,
  • scrunch up,
  • link,
  • languish,
  • morsel,
  • image,
  • patch,
  • by,
  • point-blank,
  • incarnation,
  • head,
  • in short order,
  • lay waste to,
  • cv,
  • footling,
  • banal,
  • low,
  • brusk,
  • universalise,
  • ostentate,
  • percentage point,
  • news,
  • sharpen,
  • fasting,
  • vulgarise,
  • dull,
  • muted,
  • chop-chop,
  • disgorge,
  • review,
  • hypothesis,
  • like thunder,
  • spew,
  • importee,
  • extemporaneous,
  • in haste,
  • rife,
  • ware,
  • fine,
  • zen,
  • replicate,
  • monetary standard,
  • lower-ranking,
  • gibe,
  • correspond,
  • still,
  • loss,
  • tranquillise,
  • light,
  • articulation,
  • properly,
  • power point,
  • suppose,
  • beingness,
  • reprise,
  • snappy,
  • substantiate,
  • bite,
  • softly,
  • extemporarily,
  • unbent,
  • critical point,
  • alter,
  • offhandedly,
  • regurgitate,
  • narrow,
  • knock off,
  • finely,
  • serenity,
  • like sin,
  • commotion,
  • phrase,
  • compress,
  • consecutive,
  • make up,
  • venereal disease,
  • unemotional,
  • completely,
  • computed axial tomography,
  • add up,
  • acutely,
  • squeeze,
  • palisade,
  • tear,
  • cumulate,
  • banner,
  • be sick,
  • tot up,
  • spell,
  • burden,
  • estimate,
  • pettishly,
  • circumstantially,
  • battery-acid,
  • pane,
  • unremarkable,
  • retell,
  • on the spur of the moment,
  • count,
  • photoflash,
  • at one time,
  • tranquillize,
  • channelize,
  • expiration,
  • conform to,
  • rule,
  • signal,
  • ostentation,
  • tawdry,
  • agile,
  • meretricious,
  • out of the blue,
  • min,
  • bromide,
  • pine away,
  • casual,
  • flaunt,
  • waste matter,
  • devastate,
  • weightiness,
  • vomit,
  • momently,
  • desolate,
  • scant,
  • in force,
  • reduplicate,
  • raw,
  • totally,
  • prison term,
  • drifting,
  • importation,
  • immobile,
  • dissolute,
  • organism,
  • popularize,
  • platitude,
  • piddling,
  • flit,
  • incarnate,
  • transeunt,
  • recite,
  • throw up,
  • thriftlessness,
  • gathering,
  • indicate,
  • news bulletin,
  • restate,
  • dissipation,
  • precipitously,
  • unforesightful,
  • rapidly,
  • peak,
  • sod,
  • drily,
  • meter,
  • scrap,
  • supposition,
  • mark off,
  • betimes,
  • conglomerate,
  • compact car,
  • conjecture,
  • precipitant,
  • hurly burly,
  • riotous,
  • convention,
  • macerate,
  • tote up,
  • computed tomography,
  • close to,
  • manoeuvre,
  • thick,
  • sharp,
  • primed,
  • snow flurry,
  • target,
  • daily,
  • quotidian,
  • flicker,
  • pretend,
  • grandness,
  • out,
  • departure,
  • speedy,
  • 60 minutes,
  • at a time,
  • myopic,
  • stock,
  • precipitous,
  • inst,
  • outspoken,
  • guessing,
  • tip,
  • like crazy,
  • set,
  • hombre,
  • degree,
  • garish,
  • stark,
  • atomic number 42,
  • established,
  • reckon,
  • abstraction,
  • cast,
  • ungracious,
  • dumbly,
  • channelise,
  • fugacious,
  • regorge,
  • accommodate,
  • nictate,
  • impermanent,
  • pattern,
  • compass point,
  • unsweet,
  • some,
  • wordily,
  • tally,
  • outcome,
  • superficial,
  • clock,
  • aver,
  • scrimpy,
  • maneuver,
  • rampart,
  • foregather,
  • clip,
  • here and now,
  • map,
  • ticktock,
  • assemble,
  • headlong,
  • taper,
  • spot,
  • significance,
  • gain,
  • in a flash,
  • former,
  • petty,
  • window pane,
  • barf,
  • beat,
  • trivial,
  • stir,
  • straight-from-the-shoulder,
  • meagre,
  • passing game,
  • unawares,
  • all,
  • off,
  • powder compact,
  • take over,
  • restrained,
  • neutralize,
  • gaudy,
  • exigent,
  • show off,
  • overtaking,
  • crispy,
  • frenzied,
  • menial,
  • preexisting,
  • sketch,
  • press,
  • straightaway,
  • summary,
  • state,
  • thickly,
  • garner,
  • numerate,
  • sparingly,
  • survey,
  • smooth,
  • cupid's disease,
  • skimpily,
  • unlooked-for,
  • tight,
  • offhanded,
  • tout ensemble,
  • nictitation,
  • discussion,
  • predominant,
  • computerized axial tomography,
  • repose,
  • disconnected,
  • luff,
  • early on,
  • paries,
  • short-change,
  • blinking,
  • going,
  • stocky,
  • pointedness,
  • act,
  • tranquillity,
  • sound out,
  • stingy,
  • debauched,
  • mark,
  • crinkle,
  • orient,
  • agree,
  • niggling,
  • infinitesimal,
  • scourge,
  • libertine,
  • degenerate,
  • thickset,
  • present,
  • judge,
  • concordat,
  • molybdenum,
  • connect,
  • qualifying,
  • acid,
  • fourth dimension,
  • approximately,
  • indiana,
  • weight unit,
  • disruption,
  • turn,
  • associate,
  • shoot,
  • fulfil,
  • newsflash,
  • sick,
  • decimal point,
  • humble,
  • dead reckoning,
  • received,
  • vd,
  • immediate,
  • face of the earth,
  • take up,
  • discourteously,
  • benumb,
  • poor,
  • tired,
  • weighting,
  • flapping,
  • articulate,
  • thing,
  • satisfy,
  • straight off,
  • meaning,
  • flash bulb,
  • overhasty,
  • prompt,
  • nipping,
  • sentence,
  • direct,
  • scripture,
  • word of god,
  • show me state,
  • around,
  • guy,
  • khat,
  • profligate,
  • shopworn,
  • nimble,
  • forth,
  • qat,
  • bustle,
  • temporary worker,
  • momentaneous,
  • precipitate,
  • calm,
  • pull together,
  • waste product,
  • add together,
  • full-strength,
  • scoot,
  • fill,
  • arcminute,
  • atomic number 49,
  • swank,
  • placid,
  • defend,
  • dash,
  • forgather,
  • release,
  • prosaic,
  • body forth,
  • flat,
  • like the devil,
  • imagine,
  • intelligence,
  • dosage,
  • short-run,
  • effect,
  • approximate,
  • period,
  • shot,
  • bluffly,
  • countersign,
  • rough,
  • very fast,
  • entirely,
  • ticking,
  • nictation,
  • or so,
  • stage,
  • now,
  • topic,
  • untalkative,
  • check,
  • measure,
  • ticktack,
  • bespeak,
  • affair,
  • pressing,
  • loony toons,
  • puke,
  • exercising weight,
  • crease,
  • true cat,
  • venture,
  • sexually transmitted disease,
  • variable quantity,
  • time of day,
  • gauge,
  • convulsion,
  • for the time being,
  • social disease,
  • neutralise,
  • social occasion,
  • subject,
  • in brief,
  • event,
  • flap,
  • shortstop,
  • like hell,
  • just about,
  • steer,
  • pipe down,
  • brassy,
  • ahead of time,
  • mo.,
  • aim,
  • scud,
  • flat out,
  • shape,
  • typewrite,
  • outfit,
  • obtusely,
  • signification,
  • suit,
  • self-effacing,
  • subtract,
  • blitzkrieg,
  • order of magnitude,
  • ravage,
  • stand for,
  • bundle,
  • total,
  • long-windedly,
  • character,
  • hurridly,
  • piece,
  • logos,
  • shortened,
  • passing play,
  • speculation,
  • minute of arc,
  • function,
  • fuss,
  • loyal,
  • itemise,
  • paroxysm,
  • present moment,
  • surmise,
  • match,
  • twinkle,
  • round,
  • frizzly,
  • exquisitely,
  • parole,
  • think,
  • go,
  • full stop,
  • right away,
  • flitter,
  • existence,
  • frizzy,
  • unbowed,
  • detail,
  • big cat,
  • uncoiled,
  • dim,
  • cheap,
  • number,
  • newsbreak,
  • winking,
  • nonchalantly,
  • crispen,
  • formulate,
  • potato chip,
  • personify,
  • collection,
  • quiver,
  • petulantly,
  • soft,
  • insistent,
  • read,
  • dryly,
  • vomit up,
  • legal brief,
  • varying,
  • prototype,
  • pre-existing,
  • impromptu,
  • weight down,
  • junction,
  • join,
  • typecast,
  • picayune,
  • order,
  • flash lamp,
  • passage,
  • instantaneous,
  • windily,
  • vagabond,
  • snatch,
  • tot,
  • touchstone,
  • truncated,
  • meagrely,
  • minuscule,
  • fleet,
  • jejune,
  • plainspoken,
  • banality,
  • aftermath,
  • exit,
  • calm down,
  • timeworn,
  • wastefulness,
  • currently,
  • phrenetic,
  • repoint,
  • wholly,
  • fleck,
  • watchword,
  • workaday,
  • back breaker,
  • play,
  • godforsaken,
  • nappy,
  • iterate,
  • dead,
  • aimless,
  • placidity,
  • hr,
  • pucker,
  • fluttering,
  • issue,
  • wild,
  • inward,
  • frantic,
  • tie in,
  • linebacker blitzing,
  • distributor point,
  • wrinkle,
  • right,
  • impolitely,
  • nippy,
  • shortsighted,
  • duplicate,
  • check mark,
  • wink,
  • betoken,
  • firm,
  • outright,
  • ad-lib,
  • pro tem,
  • millisecond,
  • restart,
  • perfunctory,
  • contract,
  • pronto,
  • lilliputian,
  • trashy,
  • venereal infection,
  • place,
  • avatar,
  • spry,
  • tantrum,
  • link up,
  • vulgarize,
  • palingenesis,
  • pack together,
  • unrehearsed,
  • short-circuit,
  • full point,
  • irregular,
  • birthday suit,
  • allege,
  • quieten,
  • clock time,
  • upchuck,
  • common,
  • stimulus generalization,
  • enounce,
  • slight,
  • whole,
  • loud,
  • crossroads,
  • drug,
  • formula,
  • threadbare,
  • constitute,
  • binge,
  • check off,
  • hushed,
  • low-keyed,
  • palpitate,
  • heterosexual,
  • low-key,
  • neat,
  • surmisal,
  • give voice,
  • secondary,
  • wasteland,
  • ct,
  • son,
  • nictitate,
  • confuse,
  • well-worn,
  • meager,
  • level,
  • recoup,
  • holy writ,
  • second,
  • surpassingly,
  • retch,
  • pronounce,
  • warm,
  • summate,
  • cat-o'-nine-tails,
  • candid,
  • bozo,
  • weigh,
  • pile up,
  • reprize,
  • briefness,
  • quiet down,
  • numb,
  • old-hat,
  • waver,
  • telegraphically,
  • tacky,
  • waste material,
  • cupid's itch,
  • comprise,
  • chip,
  • symbolise,
  • on the nose,
  • criterion,
  • give-and-take,
  • bust,
  • securities and exchange commission.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • hour,
  • generality,
  • fast,
  • in a capsule,
  • commonplace,
  • in an instant,
  • occasion,
  • en passant,
  • testily,
  • accurately,
  • speedily,
  • before long,
  • sententiously,
  • normal,
  • recap,
  • flash,
  • guess,
  • In transitu,
  • sum up,
  • interpolate,
  • magnitude,
  • soon,
  • Aphoristically,
  • closely,
  • suddenly,
  • import,
  • synoptically,
  • superficially,
  • indefinitely,
  • epitomize,
  • Pithily,
  • extempore,
  • enumerate,
  • popularise,
  • urgent,
  • importance,
  • gruffly,
  • summarize,
  • point,
  • compendium,
  • standard,
  • forthwith,
  • minute,
  • little,
  • in a while,
  • consequence,
  • generalize,
  • generalise,
  • to sum up,
  • blunt,
  • Incontinently,
  • hurried,
  • in a short time,
  • offhand,
  • to the point,
  • juncture,
  • in,
  • colligate,
  • Straightforth,
  • directly,
  • frenetic,
  • Flittingly,
  • pointedly,
  • discourteous,
  • brusque,
  • extemporaneously,
  • recapitulate,
  • rapid,
  • for a time,
  • solidly,
  • trivially,
  • condensed,
  • epitome,
  • prevalent,
  • at sight,
  • pettily,
  • peremptorily,
  • sparely,
  • apace,
  • embody,
  • ephemerally,
  • readily,
  • compact,
  • matter,
  • resume,
  • economically,
  • laconically,
  • Elliptically,
  • represent,
  • roughly,
  • straightway,
  • densely,
  • conventional,
  • embodiment,
  • presently,
  • typify,
  • tartly,
  • type,
  • straight,
  • summarise,
  • generalisation,
  • weight,
  • in no time,
  • swiftly,
  • gather,
  • crisply,
  • not long,
  • exactly,
  • provisionally,
  • not far,
  • to make a long story short,
  • usual,
  • compendious,
  • all in all,
  • universalize,
  • abbreviated,
  • at once,
  • recapitulation,
  • out of hand,
  • everyday,
  • at short notice,
  • reiterate,
  • Primely,
  • precisely,
  • sharply,
  • deduct,
  • abstractly,
  • repeat,
  • generalization,
  • infer,
  • rudely,
  • word,
  • pro tempore,
  • hasty,
  • in a little while,
  • immediately,
  • on the fly.

How to use "Briefly" in context?

Paraphrases for Briefly:

• Equivalence

  • Adverb
    succinctly.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    facts.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    nutshell, simple.
  • Adverb
    basically, broadly, concisely, early, essentially, expeditiously, immediately, just, momentarily, promptly, rapidly, readily, recently, shortly, simply, slightly, soon, speedily, summarily, swiftly, urgently.
  • Verb, past tense
    outlined.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    outlines, summarizes.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    brevity.