expeditious
/ɛkspɪˈdɪʃəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.31 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Completed or done with efficiency and speed; facilitating speed.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: expedited"
- "Our coachman and horses are so extremely expeditious!—I believe we drive faster than anybody."
- "An “expeditious cessation of hostilities” is essential to “stabilise European economies, prevent unintended escalation or expansion of the war and re-establish strategic stability with Russia”, the document says."
- "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 straiter and more expeditious path, though less conformable to the line of beauty, Sir Arthur observed a human figure on the beach advancing to meet them."
- "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[…]."
Etymology
From Middle English expedycius (“useful, fitting”), from Latin expedītus (“disengaged, ready, convenient, prompt; unfettered, unencumbered”), past participle of expediō.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: expedycius, expedītus
Inflected Forms
more expeditious (comparative)
most expeditious (superlative)