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Briefly vs Quickly - What's the difference?

briefly | quickly |

As adverbs the difference between briefly and quickly

is that briefly is in a brief manner, summarily while quickly is rapidly; with speed; fast.

briefly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • (manner) In a brief manner, summarily.
  • He covered the subject briefly in his book.
  • (duration) For a brief period.
  • He only worked here briefly .
  • (speech act) To be brief, in short.
  • Briefly , I am not happy about what happened, but no one will be losing their job.

    quickly

    English

    Adverb

    (quicker)
  • rapidly; with speed; fast
  • Very soon
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=November 3 , author=Chris Bevan , title=Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicini's first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboa's snap-shot.
    Two more top-class stops followed quickly afterwards, first from Natcho's rasping shot which was heading into the top corner, and then to deny Ryazantsev at his near post.}}
    If we go this way, we'll get there quickly .

    Usage notes

    * Although the comparative and superlative one-word forms exist and are in use, the two-word forms are more common.

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