Accelerate vs Expeditious - What's the difference?
accelerate | expeditious |
(label) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
(label) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
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(label) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
(label) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
(label) Grow; increase.
(label)
(rare) Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , Dialogue 2:
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English ergative verbs
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Fast, prompt, speedy.
* 1815 , , Emma , ch. 38,
(of a process or thing) Completed or done with efficiency and speed; facilitating speed.
* 1816 , , The Antiquary , vol. 1, ch. 7,
* 1844 , , Barry Lyndon , ch. 14,
As adjectives the difference between accelerate and expeditious
is that accelerate is (rare) accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried while expeditious is fast, prompt, speedy.As a verb accelerate
is (label) to cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.accelerate
English
Verb
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Synonyms
* advance * dispatch * expedite * forward * further * hasten * quicken * speed upAntonyms
* decelerate * retardDerived terms
* accelerative * accelerator * accelerated motion * accelerating forceAdjective
- ... a general knowledg of the definition of motion, and of the distinction of natural and violent, even and accelerate , and the like, sufficing.
References
expeditious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Our coachman and horses are so extremely expeditious !—I believe we drive faster than any body.
- As they thus pressed forward, longing doubtless to exchange the easy curving line, which the sinuosities of the bay compelled them to adopt, for a straighter and more expeditious path, Sir Arthur observed a human figure on the beach.
- Now, there was a sort of rough-and-ready law in Ireland in those days, which was of great convenience to persons desirous of expeditious justice.