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;

Additional info about word: 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; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession. 3. Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RAPID)

• Cursory
• Rapid
• hasty
• desultory
• careless
• superficial
• slight
• summary
• Fast
• Firm
• secure
• fixed
• constant
• steadfast
• stable
• unyielding
• Unswerving
• rapid
• accelerated
• wild
• reckless
• dissipated
• pay
• Hasty
• Speedy
• hurried
• irascible
• impetuous
• headlong
• crude
• incomplete
• undeveloped
• immature
• swift
• precipitate
• fiery
• passionate
• quick
• excitable
• rash
• cursory
• Quick
• speedy
• expeditious
• prompt
• ready
• clever
• sharp
• shrewd
• adroit
• keen
• fleet
• active
• brisk
• nimble
• lively
• agile
• alert
• sprightly
• transient
• intelligent
• Early
• fast

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RAPID)

• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate
• free
• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to RAPID)

• 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.