
Meaning of BRIEFLY
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- [adv] for a short time; "she visited him briefly"; "was briefly associated with IBM"
- [adv] in a concise manner; in a few words; "the history is summed up concisely in this book"; "she replied briefly"; "briefly, we have a problem"; "to put it shortly"
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| | Synonyms: | | concisely, in brief, in short, shortly |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Brief"ly\, adv.
Concisely; in few words.
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| | Related Terms: | | accurately, aphoristically, bluntly, brusquely, compendiously, concisely, crisply, curtly, economically, exactly, fleetingly, flickeringly, flittingly, for a moment, hastily, hurriedly, in a capsule, in a nutshell, in an instant, in brief, in brief compass, in short, laconically, momentarily, pithily, pointedly, precisely, quickly, sententiously, shortly, sparely, succinctly, summarily, swiftly, synoptically, tersely, transiently |
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