Dictionary Entry
speed
speed is a 5-letter English word with 23 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 23 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.
- 2noun
The act or state of moving swiftly; swiftness; velocity; rapidly; rate of motion; dispatch; as, the speed a horse or a vessel.
- 3noun
One who, or that which, causes or promotes speed or success.
- 4noun
To go; to fare.
- 5noun
To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare.
- 6noun
To fare well; to have success; to prosper.
- 7noun
To make haste; to move with celerity.
- 8noun
To be expedient.
- 9transitive verb
To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor.
- 10transitive verb
To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
- 11transitive verb
To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
- 12transitive verb
To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin; to undo.
- 13transitive verb
To wish success or god fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
- 14noun
changing location rapidly
- 15noun
a central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression
Synonyms
- 16noun
a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens
"the project advanced with gratifying speed"
- 17noun
the ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a (camera) lens system
- 18noun
distance travelled per unit time
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- 19verb
move faster
"The car accelerated"
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- 20verb
cause to move faster
"He accelerated the car"
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- 21verb
move very fast
"The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed"
- 22verb
travel at an excessive or illegal velocity
"I got a ticket for speeding"
- 23verb
move fast
"He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"
"The cars raced down the street"
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