Rapid vs. Quick — What's the Difference?

Moving, acting, or occurring with great speed. ]

Moving fast or doing something in a short time

Very swift or quick.

Prompt to understand, think, or learn; intelligent

Steep, changing altitude quickly. (of a slope)

At a fast rate; quickly

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

The soft tender flesh below the growing part of a fingernail or toenail.

Violent, severe.

Those who are living

Happy.

A fast bowler.

Rapidly.

Moving or functioning rapidly and energetically; speedy

A rough section of a river or stream which is difficult to navigate due to the swift and turbulent motion of the water.

Learning, thinking, or understanding with speed and dexterity; bright

(dated) A burst of rapid fire.

Perceiving or responding with speed and sensitivity; keen

(chess) rapid chess

Reacting immediately and sharply

Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.

Occurring, achieved, or acquired in a relatively brief period of time

Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession.

Done or occurring immediately

Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman.

Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.

The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; sometimes called whitewater; - usually used in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence.

Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.

A part of a river where the current is very fast

Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.

Done or occurring in a brief period of time;

Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.

Characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed;

Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.

(archaic) Alive, living.

Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.

Of water: flowing.

Burning, flammable, fiery.

Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.

Productive; not "dead" or barren

Quickly, in a quick manner.

Answer quickly.

Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.

Plants used in making a quickset hedge

The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.

Quitchgrass.

(cricket) A fast bowler.

(transitive) To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.

To quicken.

Alive; living; animate; - opposed to dead or inanimate.

Characterized by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready.

Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick.

Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper.

Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.

Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a quick ear.

Pregnant; with child.

In a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; get back quick.

That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge.

The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to taunt one to the quick; - used figuratively.

Quitch grass.

To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive.

Any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)

Accomplished rapidly and without delay;

Hurried and brief;

Moving quickly and lightly;

Apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity;

Performed with little or no delay;

Easily aroused or excited;

With little or no delay;