Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a brief manner; concisely; in few words.
- With little length; shortly: as, in entom., briefly pilose, hairy, or spinous.
Wiktionary
- adv. manner In a brief manner, summarily.
- adv. duration For a brief period.
- adv. speech act To be brief, in short.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. Concisely; in few words.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a concise manner; in a few words
- adv. for a short time
Etymologies
- brief + -ly, perhaps a calque of Old French briement (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Dr. Walters examined her expression briefly and then made his diagnosis.”
“BLITZER: Let's make the term briefly to the CIA leak.”
“It was then that his name briefly surfaced in connection with the Montreal Expo's official Canadian pavilion, which he designed in collaboration with Toronto colleagues Dick Williams and Colin Vaughan.”
“The title briefly stopped its publication berween April and June 2009, due to losses.”
“He showed her the title briefly, and then put the book back down.”
“I want to return again briefly to how the traditional distinction of liquidity and insolvency in a crisis applies to sovereign states such as Greece.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » More Musing on Liquidity and Solvency Distinctions in Sovereign Debt Crises
“This, briefly, is what we have been saying to each other.”
“We are provided here with an opportunity to perhaps again briefly consider the ciborium in relation the history of the Christian altar.”
“We also need more of the aforementioned papayas, bananas, melons and pineapples, and perhaps some other fruity surprise that has arrived because it delightfully, and briefly, is in season.”
“What was revealed in the 2001 recession briefly is now being revealed on a terrific scale and scope.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘briefly’.
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Result
hence, therefore, accordingly, consequently, thus, thereupon, as a result, in consequence, subsequently, after all, all things consid..., briefly and 22 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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not the sum of their parts
words formed as the combination of two or more other words, but which have a meaning unrelated to either of the constituent words
earwig, ladyfinger, pantywaist, dovetail, eavesdropper, blackmail, greenhorn, mango, carpet, penny farthing, farthingale, damage and 118 more...
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tom swifties
emphatically, unthinkingly, precariously, meritoriously, unceasingly, coaxingly, fervently, copacetically, sibilantly, laconically, overbearingly, incorrigibly and 66 more...
Tweets
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sionnach "There's a foreign body in my cheese", said Tom briefly. Dec 8, 2007