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fast

abstaining from food

acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly; "fast film"; "on the fast track in school"; "set a fast pace"; "a fast car"

at a rapid tempo; "the band played a fast fox trot"

(used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time; "my watch is fast"

securely fixed in place; "the post was still firm after being hit by the car"

resistant to destruction or fading; "fast colors"

(of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds; "a fast road"; "grass courts are faster than clay"

quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form); "how fast can he get here?"; "ran as fast as he could"; "needs medical help fast"; "fast-running rivers"; "fast-breaking news"; "fast-opening (or fast-closing) shutters"

firmly or tightly; "held fast to the rope"; "her foot was stuck fast"; "held tight"

abstain from eating; "Before the medical exam, you must fast"

abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons; "Catholics sometimes fast during Lent"

Synonyms:

• 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