rapid

Borrowed from French rapide, from Latin rapidus.

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæpɪd/

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rapid (comparative more rapid or rapider, superlative most rapid or rapidest)

1. Very swift or quick.

   a rapid stream;  rapid growth;  rapid improvement

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels.

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎:

     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?

   • 2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:

     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."

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.

rapid (comparative more rapid, superlative most rapid)

1. (archaic or colloquial) Rapidly.

rapid (plural rapids)

1. (often 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.
2. (dated) A burst of rapid fire.

• rapt

• Pardi, adrip, pardi, parid

Borrowed from French rapide, Latin rapidus. Doublet of repede.

• IPA^(key): /raˈpid/

rapid m or n (feminine singular rapidă, masculine plural rapizi, feminine and neuter plural rapide)

1. fast, quick, rapid, swift, speedy, prompt, expeditious

• repede, iute, grăbit, prompt, sprinten, înainte

rapid

1. quickly, rapidly, swiftly, speedily, promptly, expeditiously

• repede, iute, prompt, degrabă