英语词汇“rapidly”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adv

When you do something rapidly, you do it very quickly. A rapidly moving train is going at full speed.

You may notice that the grass in your yard grows rapidly during the rainy summer days and more slowly when there's a heat wave. You might also get a speeding ticket for driving too rapidly in a school zone. In either case, something's happening fast. The adverb rapidly comes from the adjective rapid, "moving quickly," with the Latin root rapidus, "hasty, swift, fierce, or impetuous."

WORD FAMILY

rapid: rapidity, rapidly, rapidness, rapids+/rapidity: rapidities

USAGE EXAMPLES

Though rivers along the Gulf Coast were rising rapidly Monday, only minor flooding was predicted.

New York Times(Jan 02, 2017)

In a rapidly changing climate, they may get it.

New York Times(Jan 02, 2017)

It rapidly became the source of conventional left-liberal wisdom on the treaty.

The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017)

adv with rapid movements

Syn|Ant

apace, chop-chop, quickly, speedily

easy, slow, slowly, tardily

without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')

单词	rapidly
释义	rapidly (once / 104 pages) adv When you do something rapidly, you do it very quickly. A rapidly moving train is going at full speed. You may notice that the grass in your yard grows rapidly during the rainy summer days and more slowly when there's a heat wave. You might also get a speeding ticket for driving too rapidly in a school zone. In either case, something's happening fast. The adverb rapidly comes from the adjective rapid, "moving quickly," with the Latin root rapidus, "hasty, swift, fierce, or impetuous." WORD FAMILY rapid: rapidity, rapidly, rapidness, rapids+/rapidity: rapidities USAGE EXAMPLES Though rivers along the Gulf Coast were rising rapidly Monday, only minor flooding was predicted. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) In a rapidly changing climate, they may get it. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) It rapidly became the source of conventional left-liberal wisdom on the treaty. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) adv with rapid movements Syn\|Ant apace, chop-chop, quickly, speedily easy, slow, slowly, tardily without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')
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