DICTOMETER

AYUNO (Spanish for "fast")

(fast, fasting, faste, fastende)

1. Synonyms:
   • Fast
   • Fasting
   Definitions:
   • abstaining from food
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Fast
   Definitions:
   • abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons
   Examples:
   • Catholics sometimes fast during Lent
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Fast
   Definitions:
   • abstain from eating
   Examples:
   • Before the medical exam, you must fast
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Fast
   Definitions:
   • acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly
   Examples:
   • Fast film
   • On the fast track in school
   • Set a fast pace
   • A fast car
   Antonyms:
   • SLOW
   • bumper-to-bumper
   • dilatory, laggard, poky, pokey
   • drawn-out
   • lazy
   • long-play, long-playing
   • slow-moving
   • sluggish, sulky
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Fast
   Definitions:
   • (used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time
   Examples:
   • My watch is fast
   Antonyms:
   • SLOW
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Fast
   Definitions:
   • at a rapid tempo
   Examples:
   • The band played a fast fox trot
   Antonyms:
   • SLOW
   • adagio
   • andante
   • lento
   • lentissimo
   • largo
   • larghetto
   • larghissimo
   • moderato
   
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Fast
   Definitions:
   • (of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds
   Examples:
   • A fast road
   • Grass courts are faster than clay
   Antonyms:
   • Rough
   • Unsmooth
   
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Fast
   Definitions:
   • resistant to destruction or fading
   Examples:
   • Fast colors
   Antonyms:
   • Pervious
   
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Debauched
   • Degenerate
   • Degraded
   • Dissipated
   • Dissolute
   • Libertine
   • Profligate
   • Riotous
   • Fast
   Definitions:
   • unrestrained by convention or morality
   Examples:
   • Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society
   • Deplorably dissipated and degraded
   • Riotous living
   • Fast women
   Antonyms:
   • Moral
   
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Flying
   • Quick
   • Fast
   Definitions:
   • hurried and brief
   Examples:
   • Paid a flying visit
   • Took a flying glance at the book
   • A quick inspection
   • A fast visit
   Antonyms:
   • Unhurried
   
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Fast
   • Firm
   • Immobile
   Definitions:
   • securely fixed in place
   Examples:
   • The post was still firm after being hit by the car
   Antonyms:
   • Unfixed
   
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Firm
   • Loyal
   • Truehearted
   • Fast
   Definitions:
   • unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause
   Examples:
   • A firm ally
   • Loyal supporters
   • The true-hearted soldier...of Tippecanoe- Campaign song for William Henry Harrison
   • Fast friends
   Antonyms:
   • Unfaithful
   
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Fast
    Definitions:
    • (of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time
    Examples:
    • A fast lens
    Antonyms:
    • Noncausative
    • Noncausal
    
    
    

1. Synonyms:
   • Fast
   Definitions:
   • quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form)
   Examples:
   • How fast can he get here?
   • Ran as fast as he could
   • Needs medical help fast
   • Fast-running rivers
   • Fast-breaking news
   • Fast-opening (or fast-closing) shutters
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Fast
   • Tight
   Definitions:
   • firmly or closely
   Examples:
   • Held fast to the rope
   • Her foot was stuck fast
   • Held tight