Expedite vs Alacrity - What's the difference?
expedite | alacrity |
To accelerate the progress of.
To perform (a task) fast and efficiently.
Free of impediment; unimpeded.
* Hooker
Expeditious; quick; prompt.
* Tillotson
* John Locke
Eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm.
* 1837 , , The Pickwick Papers , ch. 12:
* 1922 , , The Glimpses of the Moon , ch. 24:
Promptness; speed.
* 1849 , , "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience":
* 1902 , , Heart of Darkness , Part 1:
As a verb expedite
is to accelerate the progress of.As an adjective expedite
is free of impediment; unimpeded.As a noun alacrity is
eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm.expedite
English
Verb
(expedit)- He expedited the search by alphabetizing the papers.
Antonyms
* impede * slow downAdjective
(en adjective)- to make the way plain and expedite
- nimble and expedite in its operation
- Speech is a very short and expedite way of conveying their thoughts.
alacrity
English
Noun
(alacrities)- "I'll get into the clothes this minute, if they're here," said Sam, with great alacrity .
- This evening, however, he was struck by the beaming alacrity of the aide-de-camp's greeting.
- Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
- He had a uniform jacket with one button off, and seeing a white man on the path, hoisted his weapon to his shoulder with alacrity .
