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Synonyms for rapid

Grammar : Adj
Spell : rap-id
Phonetic Transcription : ˈræp ɪd

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Définition of rapid

Origin :
  • 1630s, "moving quickly," from French rapide (17c.) and directly from Latin rapidus "hasty, swift, rapid; snatching; fierce, impetuous," from rapere "hurry away, carry off, seize, plunder," from PIE root *rep- "to snatch" (cf. Greek ereptomai "devour," harpazein "snatch away," Lithuanian raples "tongs"). Meaning "happening in a short time" is from 1780. Related: Rapidly; rapidness. Rapid-transit first attested 1852, in reference to street railways; rapid eye movement is from 1906.
  • adj very quick
Example sentences :
  • A rapid walk soon restored the maidens to their own peaceful homes.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • They were on the bank of a stream of some width, and apparently a deep and rapid one.
  • Extract from : « Harriet, The Moses of Her People » by Sarah H. Bradford
  • We regret that his tours are so rapid, and his journals so brief.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • She heard him speaking in a voice not louder than a whisper, rapid, distinct.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • The way was open; the access was free; the progress as rapid as thought could make it.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • Harriet's climbing was not so rapid as to make her dizzy; but business was coming.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • The march of events was rapid even for him, who was not slow in anything he undertook.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
  • The bitter thoughts poured out of his mind in a rapid flood.
  • Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
  • From this time my progress towards complete recovery was rapid.
  • Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson
  • He was sanguine in all his hopes, and rapid, but not unthinking, in all his decisions.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 3 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth

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