Antonyms for expeditious
ˌɛk spɪˈdɪʃ əsex·pe·di·tious

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1. expeditious

   Active refers to both quickness and constancy of action; in the former sense it is allied with agile, alert, brisk, etc.; in the latter, with busy, diligent, industrious. The active love employment, the busy are actually employed, the diligent and the industrious are habitually busy. The restless are active from inability to keep quiet; their activity may be without purpose, or out of all proportion to the purpose contemplated. The officious are undesirably active in the affairs of others. Compare ALERT; ALIVE; MEDDLESOME.

   Antonyms:
   dull, heavy, idle, inactive, indolent, inert, lazy, quiescent, quiet, slow, sluggish, stupid

   Synonyms:
   active, agile, alert, brisk, bustling, busy, diligent, energetic, industrious, lively, mobile, nimble, officious, prompt, quick, ready, restless, sprightly, spry, supple, vigorous, wide awake

   Preposition:
   Active in work, in a cause; for an object, as for justice; with persons or instrumentalities; about something, as about other people's business.

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1. expeditiousadjective

   marked by speed and efficiency

   Antonyms:
   inefficient

How to use expeditious in a sentence?

1. San Francisco-headquartered PG&E:

   This is an important first step toward an orderly, fair and expeditious resolution of wildfire claims and a demonstration of our willingness to work collaboratively with stakeholders to achieve mutually acceptable resolutions, we hope to continue making progress with other stakeholders.

2. Ken Cuccinelli:

   That's the way the law is designed, it's intended to be an expeditious process.

3. John Simon:

   We believe a court-supervised process under Chapter 11 will best enable PGE to resolve its potential liabilities in an orderly, fair and expeditious fashion, we expect this process also will enable PGE to access the capital and resources we need to continue providing our customers with safe service and investing in our systems and infrastructure.

4. Marcelo Ebrard:

   The president has instructed me to ensure that Mexico's indignation translates into... efficient, prompt, expeditious and forceful legal actions for Mexico to take a role and demand that conditions are established that protect... Mexicans in the United States.

5. District Attorney George Gascón:

   In order to ensure our criminal justice system is fair and equitable, my office is conducting an immediate assessment of every prosecution within the past 10 years where these officers were involved, this is a shameful incident that the public deserves to have addressed in a meaningful and expeditious manner.

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