DRIVE-BY Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

drive-by

adjective

ˈdrīv-ˈbī

Definition of drive-by

as in hurried

acting or done with excessive or careless speed the administrator's schedule left her with no time to make more than a drive-by assessment of the situation

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Recent Examples of drive-by The Orland Police Department is investigating a drive-by shooting that occurred Saturday evening on Watts Avenue. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 5 July 2026 Two people have been charged in a drive-by shooting that killed a South Carolina 13-year-old over two years ago. — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 2 July 2026 He had been targeted by a drive-by shooter in Jacksonville, Florida, and hospitalized with two gunshot wounds. — Lauren Sausser, CBS News, 30 June 2026 Airing in 2010, the season 3 premiere of Sons of Anarchy concluded with Sheridan's Hale being killed when he's run over during a drive-by shooting. — Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 30 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for drive-by

Recent Examples of Synonyms for drive-by

Adjective

Hours later, across the globe, after the Dodgers dispatched the San Diego Padres in a season-opening win – and after Mizuhara served as Ohtani’s interpreter in a hurried and rushed postgame media scrum – Hiltzik called ESPN again.

— Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 28 July 2026
That hurried buildup led to an enormous industrial overhang, and, in California’s San Francisco Bay and elsewhere, a sad legacy of polluted and abandoned waterfront.

— Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of hurried

Adjective

But even a cursory survey of the music, from Iraq to Morocco and across time and styles from the medieval Moors’ ceremonial compositions to Quranic chants to 21st century jazz electronic Syrian wedding music, shows that there are far more than 24.

— Steve Hochman, SPIN, 15 July 2026
The snowy first look released by Apple back in March honestly bares some cursory resemblance to the snowy, period, Eastern European setting that the AI prompt manages to generate — which again is just for a storyboard!

— Brian Welk, IndieWire, 2 June 2026

Definition of cursory

Adjective

Typhus symptoms develop one to two weeks after a person becomes infected, and can include fever, headache, body aches, chills, rash, nausea and vomiting.

— Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 30 July 2026
Most recently, the meme-stock mania during the Covid-19 pandemic led many unwitting investors to make rash financial decisions.

— David Capablanca, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

Definition of rash

Adjective

Duke responds with an act of impulsive violence that leads to nearly eight years of incarceration.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2026
That’s only made worse by the fact that it’s treated as some kind of grand betrayal rather than an impulsive act of youthful stupidity that will make for a good story one day.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 29 July 2026

Definition of impulsive

Adjective

The defending champions managed to hold Spain to a draw in the regulation 90 minutes, which ended with combative midfielder Enzo Fernandez being sent off after a reckless challenge in injury time.

— Mark Hodge, NBC news, 20 July 2026
That context is what separates responsible flexibility from reckless convenience.

— Anand Solanki, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026