1. (adv.) In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly.

2. (adv.) In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in verse than in prose.

abruptly after a while anon aphoristically bearishly before long betimes bluffly bluntly boorishly brashly briefly brusquely by and by cavalierly churlishly compendiously concisely crisply crustily curtly directly economically ere long fleetingly flickeringly flittingly for a moment gruffly harshly immediately in a moment in a while in an instant in brief in brief compass in due course in due time in short just laconically momentarily nastily peremptorily pithily pointedly presently pronto quickly right rudely sententiously sharply snippily soon sparely succinctly summarily swiftly synoptically tartly tersely testily transiently