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Radically vs Rapidly - What's the difference?

radically | rapidly |

As adverbs the difference between radically and rapidly

is that radically is in a radical manner; fundamentally; very while rapidly is with speed; in a rapid manner.

radically

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a radical manner; fundamentally; very.
  • two radically different political groups
  • * 2013 , Louise Taylor, English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing'' (in ''The Guardian , 20 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/aug/19/english-talent-premier-league-importing]
  • The reasons for this growing disconnect are myriad and complex but the situation is exacerbated by the reality that those English players who do smash through our game's "glass ceiling" command radically inflated transfer fees.
  • At the root.
  • "Clot" and "clod" are radically the same word.
  • * 1788 , Jonathan Edwards, in a report to the Connecticut Society of Arts and Sciences:
  • This [Algonquian] language [family] is spoken by all the Indians throughout New England. Every tribe, as that of Stockbridge, that of Farmington, that of New London, &c. has a different dialect [i.e. language], but the language [family] is radically the same.

    rapidly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • With speed; in a rapid manner.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}

    Synonyms

    * (with speed) quickly, speedily * See also