briefly

English

Etymology

From Middle English breefly, breffly, brevely, brevelike, breveliche, equivalent to brief +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹiːfli/

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• Rhymes: -iːfli

Adverb

briefly (comparative more briefly, superlative most briefly)

1. (manner) In a brief manner, summarily.

   He covered the subject briefly in his book.

2. (duration) For a brief period.

   He only worked here briefly.

3. To be brief, in short.

   Briefly, I am not happy about what happened, but no one will be losing their job.

Synonyms

• (in a brief manner): in summarization, concisely, in short, in a word, to sum up
• (for a brief period): fleetingly, summarily, temporarily, transiently; see also Thesaurus:temporarily

Translations

in a brief manner

• Assamese:

  Central: চমুকে (somuke), চুটিকে (sutike)

  Eastern: চমুকৈ (somukoi), চুটিকৈ (sutikoi)

• Bulgarian: накратко (bg) (nakratko)
• Catalan: breument (ca)
• Dutch: kortweg (nl)
• Esperanto: mallonge
• Finnish: lyhyesti (fi)
• French: brièvement (fr), concisément (fr)
• Galician: brevemente (gl)
• German: kurz (de)
• Hungarian: röviden (hu)
• Italian: concisamente (it), brevemente (it)
• Latin: brevī (la), astrictē
• Malayalam: ചുരുക്കം (ml) (curukkaṁ), ചുരുക്കത്തിൽ (curukkattil)
• Polish: pokrótce (pl)
• Russian: кра́тко (ru) (krátko), ко́ротко (ru) (kórotko), вкра́тце (ru) (vkrátce)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: krotko

• Spanish: concisamente, brevemente
• Urdu: مُخْتَصَراً (muxtasaran)

for a brief period

• Hungarian: rövid ideig