Briefly \Brief"ly\ (br[=e]f"l[y^]), adv.
   Concisely; in few words.
   
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briefly
     adv 1: for a short time; "she visited him briefly"; "was briefly
            associated with IBM"
     2: in a concise manner; in a few words; "the history is summed
        up concisely in this book"; "she replied briefly";
        "briefly, we have a problem"; "to put it shortly" [syn: {concisely},
         {shortly}, {in brief}, {in short}]

37 Moby Thesaurus words for "briefly":
   accurately, aphoristically, bluntly, brusquely, compendiously,
   concisely, crisply, curtly, economically, exactly, fleetingly,
   flickeringly, flittingly, for a moment, hastily, hurriedly,
   in a capsule, in a nutshell, in an instant, in brief,
   in brief compass, in short, laconically, momentarily, pithily,
   pointedly, precisely, quickly, sententiously, shortly, sparely,
   succinctly, summarily, swiftly, synoptically, tersely,
   transiently