Fast

Verb

 * 1)  To abstain from or eat very little food; to abstain from food for religious reasons.
 * 2) * 2007, John Zerzan, Silence, p. 3,
 * It is at the core of the Vision Quest, the solitary period of fasting and closeness to the earth to discover one's life path and purpose.

Noun

 * 1) The act or practice of abstaining from food or of eating very little food.
 * 2) The period of time during which one abstains from or eats very little food.
 * 3) * Lent and Ramadan are fasts of two religions.

Adjective

 * 1) Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable.
 * That rope is dangerously loose. Make it fast!
 * 1) Of people: steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now only in set phrases like "fast friend".)
 * 2) Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid.
 * I am going to buy a fast car.
 * 1)  Able to transfer data in a short period of time.
 * 2) Deep or sound (of sleep); fast asleep (of people).
 * 3) Of dyes or colours: not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or intense light; permanent.
 * All the washing has come out pink. That red tee-shirt was not fast.
 * 1)  Having an extravagent lifestyle or immoral habits.
 * She's fast – she slept with him on their first date..
 * 1) Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
 * There must be something wrong with the hall clock. It is always fast.
 * 1)  More sensitive to light than average.

Adverb

 * 1) In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved.
 * Hold this rope as fast as you can.
 * 1)  Deeply or soundly.
 * He is fast asleep.
 * 1) Immediately following in place or time; close, very near.
 * The horsemen came fast on our heels.
 * 1) Quickly, with great speed; within a short time.
 * Do it as fast as you can.
 * 1) Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
 * I think my watch is running fast.

Noun

 * 1)  A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations.

Interjection

 * 1)  Short for "stand fast", a warning not to pass between the arrow and the target.

Adverbs for Fast
incredibly ; expeditiously; smartly; actively; mercurially; nimbly; remarkably; amazingly; marvellously; miraculously; unaccountably; intolerably; breathlessly; dangerously; alarmingly; hazardously; bewilderingly; terrifically; insanely; inordinately; immoderately; immeasurably; incalculably.

Adverbs for Fast
stubbornly; continually; frequently; tediously; determinedly; fatally; fanatically; rigorously; monastically; severely.

Synonyms for Fast
noun
 * express
 * fasting

adjective
 * quick, rapid, speedy, swift
 * quick, rapid, speedy
 * ahead
 * easy, slut
 * firm, immobile, secure, stable, stuck, tight
 * colour-fast
 * deep, sound
 * fleet, flying, expeditious, nimble, accelerated, active, agile, alert, brisk, lively, wild, dissolute, dissipated, reckless, abandoned, secure, permanent, lasting.

adverb
 * quickly, rapidly, speedily, swiftly
 * firmly, securely, tightly
 * deeply
 * ahead

Antonyms for Fast
adjective
 * slow
 * slow, behind,tardy,
 * loose
 * light
 * sluggish, dilatory, slothful, dull, heavy, settled, dull-witted, plodding, solemn, quiet, virtuous, upright, model, exemplary, steady, well-behaved, good, insecure, impermanent.

adverb
 * slowly
 * loosely
 * lightly
 * behind

interjection
 * loose

noun
 * local, stopper

Derived terms

 * bedfast
 * chairfast
 * fasten


 * fast and furious
 * fast food
 * fast-forward

Derived terms

 * break one's fast


 * breakfast


 * fast day

Thesaurus
Barmecidal feast, Encratism, Friday, Lenten diet, Lenten entertainment, Lenten fare, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, Sabbath, Shakerism, Spartan fare, Stoicism, Sunday, abandoned, abstain, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, accelerated, active, agile, aground, airtight, alert, amain, anchored, apace, ardent, asceticism, at flank speed, attached, avoidance, balanced, banyan day, bare subsistence, bonded, bound, bread and water, breakneck, brief, brisk, briskly, calculable, caught, celibacy, cemented, chained, chastity, chronic, church calendar, close, close to, closely, colorfast, committed, compact, confirmed, connected, constant, continence, cool, dashing, debauched, dedicated, deep-dyed, deep-fixed, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, dependable, devoted, diet, dissipated, dissolute, dissolutely, double-dyed, double-quick, dustproof, dusttight, dyed-in-the-wool, eagle-winged, eat sparingly, ecclesiastical calendar, eschewal, established, expeditious, expeditiously, express, extravagant, extravagantly, fadeless, faithful, faithworthy, fastened, fasting, feast, fecklessly, fiducial, firm, firm as Gibraltar, firmly, fish day, fixed, fixedly, flat-out, fleet, flying, free, fruitarianism, full tilt, gallant, galloping, gasproof, gastight, gay, glued, go hungry, grounded, gymnosophy, hair-trigger, hand over fist, hand over hand, hastily, hasty, headlong, held, hell for leather, hell-bent, hell-bent for election, hermetic, hermetically sealed, high and dry, high-speed, holy day, holytide, hurried, hurriedly, hustling, immediately, immoral, immovable, immovably, impacted, imperturbable, implanted, in a flash, in a twinkling, in a wink, in double time, in double-quick time, in equilibrium, in high, in high gear, in nothing flat, in seven-league boots, in short order, incorrigible, inculcated, indecorous, indecorously, indelible, inextricable, infixed, ingrain, ingrained, inseparably, instilled, intemperate, intemperately, inveterate, invincible, irresponsible, irreversible, jammed, keen, lack of food, lasting, lecherous, lecherously, licentious, licentiously, lickety-cut, lickety-split, liege, light of heel, light-footed, lightproof, lighttight, like a flash, like a shot, like wildfire, lively, long-established, loose, loosely, loyal, lustful, lustfully, meager diet, mercurial, moored, near, nephalism, nimble, nimble-footed, not eat, of easy virtue, oilproof, oiltight, on the double, packed, permanent, plain living, post, posthaste, precipitate, predictable, presto, profligate, promiscuous, promiscuously, prompt, promptly, pronto, quick, quick as lightning, quick as thought, quickly, rainproof, raintight, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, raking, rakish, rapid, rapidly, reckless, recklessly, refraining, refrainment, reliable, resolute, right, rooted, running, sealed, secure, secured, securely, self-denial, self-indulgent, set, settled, settled in habit, sexual abstinence, short commons, shut fast, simple diet, smokeproof, smoketight, snappily, snappy, snug, solid, solidly, soon, sound, soundly, spanking, spare diet, speedily, speedy, stable, starvation diet, staunch, steadfast, steadfastly, steady, stormproof, stormtight, stranded, strong, stuck, stuck fast, substantial, sure, surefire, swift, swiftly, sybaritic, sybaritically, taped, teetotalism, tested, tethered, the pledge, thorough, tied, tight, tightly, total abstinence, transfixed, tried, tried and true, trippingly, true, trustworthy, trusty, unbridled, under forced draft, unfading, unfailing, unflappable, unflinching, unrestrained, unrestrainedly, unshakable, unshakably, unshakeable, unshakeably, unwavering, vegetarianism, wanton, wantonly, water-repellant, waterproof, watertight, wedged, well-balanced, well-founded, well-grounded, whip and spur, wild, wildly, windproof, windtight, winged, with all haste, with all speed, with giant strides, with rapid strides, with speed, without nerves, xerophagia, xerophagy

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/f{st/}}
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 * ,, {{SAMPA|/f{st/}}
 * ,, {{SAMPA|/f{st/}}

Etymology 1
fæstan: (verb), from. Cognate with Dutch vasten:, German fasten:, Old Norse fasta:, Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽:. The noun is probably from fasta:.

Etymology 2
fæst: (adj), fæste: (adv), from, from.

Cognate via Germanic with Dutch vast:, German fest:, Icelandic (and Faroese) fastur:, Norwegian fast:, and Swedish fast:. Cognate via Proto-Indo-European with Armenian հաստ: and Sanskrit पस्त्य:.

The development of “rapid” from an original sense of “secure” apparently happened first in the adverb and then transferred to the adjective; compare hard: in expressions like “to run hard”. The original sense of “secure, firm” is now archaic, but retained in the related fasten:.

Verb

 * Amharic: ጾመ
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: պաս պահել
 * Basque: barau egin
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin: (zhāijiè)
 * Czech: se
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: მარხულობა, მარხვის შენახვა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: צם
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Georgian: მარხულობა, მარხვის შენახვა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: צם
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:


 * Kurdish: rojî girtin,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: gavēt
 * Macedonian: пости
 * Malay: puasa
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: pościć
 * Portuguese: ficar de jejum,
 * Romanian: ajuna, posti
 * Russian: поститься, попоститься
 * Slovene: postiti se
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamazight:
 * Thai: (òt aahăan)
 * Turkish: oruç tutmak
 * Welsh: ymprydio
 * Romanian: ajuna, posti
 * Russian: поститься, попоститься
 * Slovene: postiti se
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamazight:
 * Thai: (òt aahăan)
 * Turkish: oruç tutmak
 * Welsh: ymprydio
 * Turkish: oruç tutmak
 * Welsh: ymprydio
 * Welsh: ymprydio
 * Welsh: ymprydio

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: պաս (pas), ծոմ (çom),
 * Basque: barau
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese: See Mandarin
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: paasto, paastoaminen
 * Georgian: მარხვა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: צום (tzom), תענית (ta'anit)
 * Hungarian: böjtölés
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 断食 (danjiki),
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: rojî
 * Sorani: ڕۆژوو


 * Latin:
 * Latvian: gavēnis
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: puasa
 * Mandarin: (zhāijiè)
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: oruç


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: պաս (pas), ծոմ (çom),
 * Basque: baraualdi
 * Belarusian: пост
 * Catalan: dia dejunat
 * Chinese: See Mandarin
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: მარხვა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: troscadh
 * Italian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: troscadh
 * Italian:
 * Italian:


 * Kurdish: rojî ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: gavēnis
 * Macedonian:
 * Mandarin: (zhāijiè qí)
 * Mongolian: харуу
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: (kaan òt)
 * Welsh: ympryd
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: (kaan òt)
 * Welsh: ympryd
 * Welsh: ympryd
 * Welsh: ympryd
 * Welsh: ympryd


 * : fasto
 * : puasa

Adjective

 * Basque:, irmo,  finko
 * Catalan: ferm
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (láode)
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: ceangailte, suite


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: zeft, sabit
 * Latvian: stipri
 * Macedonian: цврст, отпорен,
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish: ,


 * Danish:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:


 * Kurdish: (xewa) giran
 * Macedonian: цврст
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (bútuìsède)
 * Danish: farvefast
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: azkar
 * Catalan: ràpid, veloç
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 快
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: snel, vlug, rap, kwiek, gezwind
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hindi: तेज़, तीव्र
 * Icelandic:, hraðskreiður
 * Irish:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: lezgîn, zû, bilez
 * Sorani: خێرا


 * Latin:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Persian: تند
 * Polish:, , , szybcy, szybkie
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian:, , скоростной
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: hiter, hitra , hitro
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tok Pisin: kwik
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: تیز


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (piānkuàide)
 * Danish:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 早い (hayai)


 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: zû
 * Sorani: زوو
 * Norwegian:, for tidlig
 * Portuguese: adiantado, adiantada
 * Russian: спешащий, обгоняющий
 * Swedish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (xùnsùpù guāngde)
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:


 * Norwegian:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:

Adverb

 * Catalan: fermament
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (laógùdi)
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: lujasti, tiukasti
 * German:
 * Icelandic:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: цврсто
 * Norwegian: fast
 * Russian: прочно,
 * Swedish:


 * Danish:
 * Finnish: sikeästi
 * German:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:


 * Macedonian: цврсто
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Basque: azkar,
 * Catalan: ràpid, ràpidament, veloçment
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (kuàisù)
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: hratt
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 速く (hayaku), 急いで (isoide)
 * Kurdish: zû,


 * Macedonian:
 * Navajo:, ,
 * Norwegian: raskt, kjapt, hurtig
 * Persian: تند
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tok Pisin: kwik
 * Turkish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (kuàiyúbiāozhǔnshíjiān)
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: etuajassa
 * Italian: in anticipo


 * Kurdish:
 * Macedonian: предвремен
 * Russian: преждевременно
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:

Interjection

 * Ukrainian: Припинити вогонь

Anagrams

 * fats
 * SAFT
 * TAFs

Etymology 1
From fastr:, from, from.

Adjective

 * 1) firm
 * 2) solid
 * 3) tight
 * 4) fixed
 * 5) permanent
 * 6) regular

Derived terms

 * fastansat
 * fasthed
 * fastlægge
 * fastsætte

Etymology 2
From fast:.

Adverb

 * 1)  almost, nearly

Synonyms

 * næsten
 * omtrent

Etymology 3
See faste:.

Etymology
fasto:, compare fest:. Cognate with English adverb fast:.

Adverb

 * 1) almost; nearly
 * Fast 60 Spielfilme sind zu sehen. — “There are almost 60 feature films to see.”
 * 1)  hardly

Synonyms

 * beinahe

Antonyms

 * ganz

Adverb

 * 1) fast quickly

Adjective

 * 1) solid, steady,firm
 * fast telefon - fixed phone

Adjective

 * 1) caught (unable to move freely), captured
 * Bankrånaren är nu fast
 * The bank robber has now been caught (by the police)
 * 1) firm, fastened, unmoving
 * Ge mig en fast punkt, och jag skall flytta världen
 * Give me one firm spot, and I'll move the world
 * 1) solid (as opposed to liquid)
 * fasta tillståndets fysik
 * solid state physics

Related terms

 * fastna
 * fäst
 * fästa
 * fäste

Adverb

 * 1) fixed, firmly, steadily (synonymous to the adjective)

Conjunction

 * 1) although, even though

Related terms

 * fastän
 * fast å andra sidan