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Princeton's WordNet

  1. quickly, rapidly, speedily, chop-chop, apaceadverb

    with rapid movements

    "he works quickly"

Wiktionary

  1. rapidlyadverb

    With speed; in a rapid manner.

    She packed her case rapidly and hurried out.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Rapidlyadverb

    Swiftly; with quick motion.

    Etymology: from rapid.

ChatGPT

  1. rapidly

    Rapidly refers to doing something quickly or at great speed. It means action occurring within a short time frame, or changing, moving, or reacting with great speed, urgency, or swiftness.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Rapidlyadverb

    in a rapid manner

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'rapidly' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2230

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'rapidly' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3926

  3. Adverbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'rapidly' in Adverbs Frequency: #181

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of rapidly in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of rapidly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of rapidly in a Sentence

  1. Park Sung-soon:

    LG's competitor Samsung recently cut prices for its TV products in a bid to get ahead as Chinese television makers have been rapidly catching up.

  2. Jon Clay:

    Cryptocurrency mining as a threat has been growing rapidly, and the threat actors have been looking at ways to increase their victim size so they can increase the number of devices performing the mining function, the more systems, the faster the mining operation, and hence the faster money can be made. This is one of many ways cybercriminals are looking to support their efforts.

  3. Kasia Sawicka:

    Logistically speaking, if you think of a rapidly spreading pandemic, having the ability to vaccinate a large number of people is really the only way we know to date how to deal with it. If you need to train emergency personnel, that presents a problem. What if we had a way to vaccinate people by just telling them to stick on a Band-Aid? because the payload can be delivered to areas where it’s needed rapidly— no special handling required— then applied to the skin by someone whose sophistication is limited to that of applying a Band-Aid… it becomes possible to address these major challenges that have long bedeviled the health care profession in delivering vaccines to underserved areas.

  4. Nico Rosberg:

    They are racing for 10th place. If they were racing for a world championship, it would change rapidly, mark my words.

  5. William Schaffner:

    Measles kills, and it’s also the easiest to catch. It’s the single most transmissible virus we know, and that accounts for the fact that it’s spreading so rapidly among these kids.

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    cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across
    A suffuse
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