rapid en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- /ˈɹæp.ɪd/ (Canada, Received-Pronunciation, US)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁p- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *h₁r̥h₁pyéti Proto-Italic *rapjō Latin rapiō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin rapidusder. Middle French rapidebor. ▲ Latin rapidusbor. English rapid Borrowed from Middle French rapide and its etymon Latin rapidus.
Meanings
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Very swift or quick.
Ascend my Chariot; guide the rapid Wheeles.
1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:rapid improvement
rapid growth
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?
1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC: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."
2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:a rapid stream
- Steep, changing altitude quickly. (of a slope)
- Needing only a brief exposure time. (of a lens, plate, film, etc.)
- (England, dialectal) Violent, severe.
- (dialectal, obsolete) Happy.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more rapid | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| rapider | Degree=Cmp | proscribed | lexicographic |
| most rapid | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| rapidest | Degree=Sup | proscribed | lexicographic |
Deriveds
rapid response system · rapid-fire · rapid antigen test · rapid unplanned disassembly · unrapid · rapid response team · rapid fire · ultrarapid · rapidness · rapid rectangular flashing beacon · nonrapid · rapid eye movement · rapid fire pistol · rapid transit · rapid unscheduled disassembly · bus rapid transit · rapid-onset gender dysphoria · rapidly · rapid automatized naming · rapidograph · rapidity · ropinirole · rocuronium
Translations (75)
de schnell (Very swift or quick) · is fljótur (Very swift or quick) · pdt flinkj (Very swift or quick) · vo vifik (Very swift or quick) · es rápido (Very swift or quick) · el γοργός (Very swift or quick) · uk ско́рий (Very swift or quick) · eo rapide (Very swift or quick) · ru бы́стрый (Very swift or quick) · la rapidus (Very swift or quick) · fi nopea (Very swift or quick) · sk rýchly (Very swift or quick) · to vave (Very swift or quick) · cmn 急速 (Very swift or quick) · it rapido (Very swift or quick) · fi ripeä (Very swift or quick) · no rask (Very swift or quick) · ca ràpid (Very swift or quick) · sv snabb (Very swift or quick) · el ταχύς (Very swift or quick) · el γρήγορος (Very swift or quick) · ba тиҙ (Very swift or quick) · bg бърз (Very swift or quick) · lv straujš (Very swift or quick) · ko 빠르다 (Very swift or quick) · sa आशु (Very swift or quick) · lv ātrs (Very swift or quick) · cs rychlý (Very swift or quick) · la incitus (Very swift or quick) · grc θοός (Very swift or quick) · uk швидки́й (Very swift or quick) · ms ligas (Very swift or quick) · lv ašs (Very swift or quick) · yue 快 (Very swift or quick) · pl szybki (Very swift or quick) · gd grad (Very swift or quick) · hu sebes (Very swift or quick) · sv hastig (Very swift or quick) · es raudo (Very swift or quick) · be ско́ры (Very swift or quick) · cmn 快 (Very swift or quick) · cmn 迅速 (Very swift or quick) · la velox (Very swift or quick) · mk брз (Very swift or quick) · ro repede (Very swift or quick) · ja 迅速な (Very swift or quick) · nl snelle (Very swift or quick) · uk хутки́й (Very swift or quick) · pt rápido (Very swift or quick) · lv žigls (Very swift or quick) · nl snel (Very swift or quick) · ar سَرِيع (Very swift or quick) · pdt schwind (Very swift or quick) · ba шәп (Very swift or quick) · ja 急な (Very swift or quick) · ja 速い (Very swift or quick) · sl híter (Very swift or quick) · ms deras (Very swift or quick) · alt ылтам (Very swift or quick) · it deciso (Very swift or quick) · be ху́ткі (Very swift or quick) · gl rápido (Very swift or quick) · no hurtig (Very swift or quick) · cmn 快速 (Very swift or quick) · arz سريع (Very swift or quick) · grc ταχύς (Very swift or quick) · hu gyors (Very swift or quick) · ur سریع (Very swift or quick) · af vinnig (Very swift or quick) · cmn 急湍 (Very swift or quick) · ro rapid (Very swift or quick) · ru ско́рый (Very swift or quick) · sa रघु (Very swift or quick) · fr rapide (Very swift or quick) · lv knašs (Very swift or quick)