lightning fast

English

Alternative forms

• lightning-fast (adjective)

Pronunciation

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Adjective

lightning fast (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Extremely fast, fast as lightning.

   Synonyms: fulgurant, lightning-quick, quick as a flash, in a flash

Translations

fast as lightning

• Danish: lynhurtig
• Dutch: bliksemsnel (nl)
• Esperanto: fulmrapida
• Finnish: salamannopea (fi)
• French: éclair (fr), foudroyant (fr), rapide comme l’éclair (fr)
• Galician: lixeiro coma un lóstrego
• German: blitzschnell (de), blitzgeschwind, blitzartig (de)
• Greek: κεραυνοβόλος (el) (keravnovólos), αστραπιαίος (el) (astrapiaíos)
• Hungarian: villámgyors (hu)
• Interlingua: fulminee
• Italian: fulmineo (it), veloce come un fulmine, veloce come un lampo
• Northern Sami: dolalaš
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lynrask

  Nynorsk: lynrask

• Polish: błyskawiczny (pl), błyskawicowy
• Russian: молниено́сный (ru) (molnijenósnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: муњѐвит

  Roman: munjèvit (sh)

• Spanish: fulminante (es)
• Swedish: blixtsnabb (sv)
• Ukrainian: блискави́чний (uk) (blyskavýčnyj)
• Vietnamese: chớp nhoáng (vi)

Adverb

lightning fast (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Extremely quickly.

   Synonyms: quick as a flash, in a flash, lightningly

Translations

extremely quickly — see quick as a flash