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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. Peter Marks:

    Data has come in so rapidly that we need to be able to look through the data and in looking through the data, we realize now, in data that came in very rapidly because of the large number of cases of Omicron, that at this time, it makes sense for us to wait until we have the data from the evaluation of a third dose before taking action, the data that we saw made us realize that we needed to see data from a third dose as in the ongoing trial in order to make the determination that we could proceed with doing an authorization.

  2. William Fullbright:

    We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

  3. Aldous Huxley:

    Such prosperity as we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

  4. 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.

  5. Samuel Beckett:

    Vladimir That passed the time. Estragon It would have passed in any case. Vladimir Yes, but not so rapidly.

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    • A. pluck
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