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Word Meanings - RAPID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton. 2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth;

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1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton. 2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession. 3. Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman.

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  • PRECIPITATELY
    In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.
  • LIVELY
    1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
  • SLIGHTNESS
    The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
  • PROMPT-BOOK
    The book used by a prompter of a theater.
  • SHARPLY
    In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
  • CARELESSLY
    In a careless manner.
  • EXPOSER
    One who exposes or discloses.
  • SHARPER
    A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
  • RAPID
    1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton. 2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth;
  • EXCITABLE
    Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
  • DISSIPATIVE
    Tending to dissipate. Dissipative system , an assumed system of matter and motions in which forces of friction and resistances of other kinds are introduced without regard to the heat or other molecular actions which they generate; -- opposed to
  • SPRIGHTLY
    Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
  • SLIGHTEN
    To slight. B. Jonson.
  • RAPIDNESS
    Quality of being rapid; rapidity.
  • STABLENESS
    The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.
  • ACCELERATOR
    One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves.
  • SLIGHTINGLY
    In a slighting manner.
  • EARLY
    Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early. Those that me early shall find me. Prov. viii. 17. You must wake and call me early. Tennyson.
  • QUICKBEAM
    See TREE
  • STABLEBOY; STABLEMAN
    A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.
  • SELF-ACTIVE
    Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
  • CHYLIFACTIVE
    Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
  • DISREGARDFULLY
    Negligently; heedlessly.
  • POSTABLE
    Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu.
  • COUNTERACTIVE
    Tending to counteract.
  • COMPASSIONATELY
    In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
  • INTESTABLE
    Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone.
  • ENQUICKEN
    To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
  • REFIX
    To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
  • CONSTABLESS
    The wife of a constable.
  • CLEARLY
    In a clear manner.
  • DISRESPECTABILITY
    Want of respectability. Thackeray.
  • AFFIX
    figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
  • DEFIX
    To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
  • AFFIXION
    Affixture. T. Adams.

 

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