Briefly

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Briefly \Brief"ly\ (br[=e]f"l[y^]), adv.
     Concisely; in few words.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  briefly
       adv 1: for a short time; "she visited him briefly"; "was briefly
              associated with IBM"
       2: 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" [syn: {concisely},
           {shortly}, {in brief}, {in short}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "briefly":
     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