 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
briefly
adverb
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Briefly \Brief"ly\ (br[=e]f"l[y^]), adverb
Concisely; in few words.
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
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