Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or relating to the drama.

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Striking in appearance or effect.

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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-17, volume=408, issue=8849, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Best and brightest , passage=Poland has made some dramatic gains in education in the past decade. Before 2000 half of the country’s rural adults had finished only primary school. Yet international rankings now put the country’s students well ahead of America’s in science and maths (the strongest predictor of future earnings), even as the country spends far less per pupil. }}

Having a powerful, expressive singing voice.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Very swift or quick.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

, chapter=5 citation , passage=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.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author= Chico Harlan

, volume=189, issue=2, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Japan pockets the subsidy … , passage=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."}}

Steep, changing altitude quickly. (of a slope)

Needing only a brief exposure time. (of a lens, plate, film, etc.)

(England, dialectal) Violent, severe.

(obsolete, dialectal) Happy.