at the speed of light

Synonyms

presto quickly rapidly swiftly speedily apace briskly all of a sudden hotfoot sketchily double-quick fleetly like crazy like mad like a shot
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Antonyms

next heavily gradually slowly steadily afterward
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Examples

You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there. Richard Bach

Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. Marshall McLuhan

For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don't want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound. Martin Amis

The hardware world tends to move into software form at the speed of light. Marshall McLuhan

One of the things that happens at the speed of light is that people lose their goals in life. So what takes the place of goals and objectives? Well, role-playing is coming in very fast. Marshall McLuhan

At the speed of light there is no sequence; everything happens at the same instant. Marshall McLuhan

Words in the phrase

at the speed of light

Close letter words and terms

at the soonest possible time at the soup at the speed at the speed of sound at the stable at the start