as soon as possible
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.02 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
As soon as is possible; at one's earliest convenience; at the earliest possible time.
Example Sentences
- "The Admiral, very apprehensive of her falling into the hands of the enemy, sent me with discretional orders to Captain Hood, that, should he not be able to get her off the shoal, he might put his men into the Thames, and burn the Venerable, making the signal at the same time for the Thames to close with the Venerable as soon as possible."
- "These depraved lustings after flesh, grease, narcotics, etc., are a disgrace to human nature; you ought to be ashamed of them, and eradicate and destroy them as soon as possible."
- "Then he put a trunk line phone call through to the nearest township and asked the Police to send someone out as soon as possible."
- "Where I do agree with Tim is that we need 'non-fossil fuel power to be the default for the railways as soon as possible."
Inflected Forms
Phrases
as much as possible
as quickly as possible
Frequently Paired Words
as much as possible
as quickly as possible