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shortly

English

  1. 🔊 for a short time
    “he was at the airport shortly before she was expected to arrive”
  2. 🔊 at a short distance
    “the hem fell shortly below her knees”
  3. 🔊 in the near future
    “the doctor will soon be here”
  4. 🔊 in a concise manner
    “the history is summed up concisely in this book”
  5. 🔊 in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
    “he told me curtly to get on with it”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 en breve shortly, soon
  2. 🔊 próximamente shortly, soon
  3. 🔊 tempranamente shortly, soon

Similar words

soon presently before long concisely briefly in brief in short curtly short abruptly after a while anon aphoristically bearishly before long betimes bluffly bluntly boorishly brashly briefly brusquely by and by cavalierly