rapid – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of rapid

Adjective: rapid

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativerapider
Superlativerapidest

Perifrastic

Comparativemore rapid
Superlativemost rapid

Sample Sentences

  • a rapid stream
  • rapid growth
  • rapid improvement
  • Ascend my Chariot; guide the rapid Wheeles. [1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival? [1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:]
  • Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion." [2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:]

Adjectives inflected like rapid

wholsom, seldom, scared, solemn, silent, beloved, uptight, perfect, useless, up-tight, selfish, distinct, discreet, Dutch, reckless, bumfuck, worthless, slender, faithfull, shallow, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁p-der.
3. Proto-Italic *rapjō
4. Latin rapiō
5. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
6. Proto-Italic *-iðos
7. Latin -idus
8. Latin rapidusder.
9. Middle French rapidebor.
10. ▲
11. Latin rapidusbor.
12. English rapid
13. Borrowed from Middle French rapide and its etymon Latin rapidus. See: Latin Adjectives 'rapidus'.

Verbs referencing "rapid"

Spanish Adjectives rápido.