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rapidly adverb [ ˈrapɪdli ]

• very quickly; at a great rate.
• "the business is expanding rapidly"
Similar: quickly, fast, swiftly, speedily, at (full) speed, at the speed of light, post-haste, hotfoot, at full tilt, at a gallop, expeditiously, briskly, promptly, hurriedly, in a hurry, fast and furious, hastily, in haste, in a rush, precipitately, abruptly, like a shot, double quick, p.d.q. (pretty damn quick), in a flash, hell for leather, at warp speed, pronto, at the double, like a bat out of hell, like (greased) lightning, like a madman/madwoman, like mad, like crazy, like blazes, like a streak, like the wind, like a bomb, like nobody's business, like a scalded cat, like the deuce, a mile a minute, before one can say knife, like the clappers, at a rate of knots, like billy-o, lickety-split, apace,
Opposite: slowly,


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