What is another word for briefly?
1230 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ bɹˈiːfli], [ bɹˈiːfli], [ b_ɹ_ˈiː_f_l_i]
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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)
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.
adv
• awhile (adverb) • in brief (adverb) • Other relevant words: (adverb) • quickly (adverb)adv.
• all (adverb) • awhile (adverb) • concisely (adverb)- delicately,
- abruptly,
- scantily,
- minutely,
- meagerly,
- in a nutshell,
- to sum things up,
- bluntly,
- Paltrily,
- incisively,
- curtly,
- punily,
- narrowly,
- brusquely,
- compactly.
- away.
n.
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•
- passing,
- floating,
- inconstant,
- temporary,
- short-term,
- variable.
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•
- in effect,
- hurriedly,
- briskly,
- on balance,
- altogether,
- quickly,
- hastily,
- words to that effect,
- in the final/last analysis,
- casually.
- 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:
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- while.
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- being.
- 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.
- 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?
Briefly is a clever word that can be used in various ways. It can mean for a short time or for a limited amount of time. It can also refer to something that is not very important. Briefly can also be used as a adjective to describe something that is brief or limited in time.
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Equivalence
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Adverb
succinctly.
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Adverb
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Independent
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Proper noun, singular
facts.
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Adverb
basically, broadly, concisely, early, essentially, expeditiously, immediately, just, momentarily, promptly, rapidly, readily, recently, shortly, simply, slightly, soon, speedily, summarily, swiftly, urgently.
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Verb, past tense
outlined.
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
outlines, summarizes.
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Proper noun, singular
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Noun, singular or mass
brevity.
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Noun, singular or mass
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