Meaning

Very swift or quick..

Definitions by Sense

1. Very swift or quick.
2. Steep, changing altitude quickly. (of a slope)
3. Needing only a brief exposure time. (of a lens, plate, film, etc.)
4. (England, dialectal) Violent, severe.
5. (obsolete, dialectal) Happy.
6. (archaic, colloquial) Rapidly.
7. (usually in the plural) A rough section of a river or stream which is difficult to navigate due to the swift and turbulent motion of the water.
8. (dated) A burst of rapid fire.

Example Sentences

a rapid stream

rapid growth

rapid improvement

Ascend my Chariot; guide the rapid Wheeles.

The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?

Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."

In these rapid games we had just twenty-five minutes each to make all our moves, a far cry from traditional chess, where games can last up to seven hours.

In order to avoid misunderstanding, I must note that I object to the attempts to displace normal chess with fast play, not rapid or blitz in general. I love them both, and, if I were to choose which to play, classic or rapid, I would choose rapid.

Word Forms

• more rapid
• rapider
• most rapid
• rapidest
• rapids

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Use rapid when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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