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- Dictionarybriskly/ˈbrɪskli/
adverb
- 1. in an active, quick, or energetic way: "she walked briskly into the building"
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She strode briskly down the corridor. His letters were always briskly businesslike. Diet books have been selling briskly for decades. "Let's get started," he said, rubbing his hands briskly together.
The meaning of BRISK is keenly alert : lively. How to use brisk in a sentence.
in a practical and confident way; in a way that shows a desire to get things done quickly. ‘Never mind!’ said Sybil briskly. if the wind blows briskly, it is cold or pleasantly fresh. The wind was blowing briskly. Definition of briskly adverb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
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1. quickly, smartly, promptly, rapidly, readily, actively, efficiently, vigorously, energetically, pronto (informal), nimbly, posthaste Eve walked briskly down the corridor. 2. rapidly, quickly, apace, pdq (slang) A trader said gold was selling briskly on the local market.
The earliest known use of the adverb briskly is in the late 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for briskly is from 1592, in the writing of Robert Greene, writer and playwright. briskly is formed within English, by derivation.
Fast, quickly, swiftly. He turned and walked briskly back to the market. Number one jumped briskly aside. She brushed the dog's fur rather harshly and briskly. Around the cannon the men moved still more briskly and busily. Find similar words to briskly using the buttons below. Briskly definition: <a>Fast</a>, <a>quickly</a>, <a>swiftly.</a>.
