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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. Andrew Opie:

    Christmas is about more than just food, so to avoid disappointment for millions of households during the festive season we urge the government to rapidly extend this program, both in size and scope, to [ truck ] drivers in all sectors of the retail industry.

  2. Charles Richard:

    The threat is only getting worse rapidly.

  3. Veryan Khan:

    We have never seen someone move about this rapidly, what makes it even more unusual is that she is newly traveled to Islamic State. Having only been there since Dec. 8, it is odd that she would become so active so quickly once arriving.

  4. Doug Kass:

    I view the current underperformance in banks stocks as an important intermediate-term opportunity to acquire valuable long term investments, deutsche Bank's woes are actually a positive for U.S. money center banks that are rapidly gaining share in fixed-income trading and retail and corporate lending.

  5. Tom McAlpin:

    If you look at the industry and how resilient it has been in the past, when there's been challenges, it has come back quite rapidly, we're doing everything we can, taking precautions above and beyond.

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