Rapidly
Rapidly adverb - With great speed.
Very quickly and rapidly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Very quickly" instead an adverb "Rapidly".
Very quickly
Rapidly and very quickly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Rapidly" instead an adverb phrase "Very quickly".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- fast and rapidly
- fast and very quickly
- quickly and rapidly
- quickly and very quickly
- expeditiously and rapidly
- expeditiously and very quickly
- speedily and rapidly
- speedily and very quickly
- swiftly and rapidly
- swiftly and very quickly
- hastily and rapidly
- hastily and very quickly
- like a shot and rapidly
- like a shot and very quickly
Both terms in one sentence
- The illusion falls apart very quickly, however, as it rapidly becomes apparent that he's just a lecherous mental patient in a lab coat, looking for an excuse to gawk at/fondle female patients/nurses.
Source: Bavarian Fire Drill -
When troops are nearby, the resulting cloud of rapidly expanding shrapnel has the tendency of going from metal-gray to blood-red very quickly.
Source: Ludicrous Gibs -
A web of cracks on the other hand (like what is rapidly forming on the canopy), means decompression is very quickly going to follow.
Source: Western Animation / Titan A.E.
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Very quickly and Rapidly. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 10, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/rapidly/very_quickly
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