Brisk and Slow

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Brisk

Brisk adjective - Moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed.
Usage example: moved at a brisk walk through the exhibit
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Slow is an antonym for brisk in topics: quick, chilly, fast-moving.
Nearby Words: briskness, briskly, brisked

Slow

Slow adjective - Moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speed.
Usage example: slow readers
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Brisk is an antonym for slow in topics: unhurried, long.
Nearby Words: slowness, slowed, slowly, slowing, slowdown
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  • Nightmare Fuel / Music However, where other bands (e.g The Byrds, The Leaves, Love) usually played the song in a brisk, proto-punk style, Hendrix played it as a slow, ominous, blues number, making an already creepy tune even creepier.
    Source: Nightmare Fuel / Music
  • Uncommon Time In the main riff to "New Millennium Cyanide Christ", for example, their drummer plays a slow 4/4 with his hands and, apparently, five bars of a very brisk 23/16 followed by one of 13/16 with his feet, and it only gets more complex from there.
    Source: Uncommon Time
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