rapid growth

Fast increase in size

Rapid growth is expansion or increase at an unusually fast pace.

The phrase appears in business contexts rapid growth in the tech sector, biology the rapid growth of cancer cells, and urban development rapid growth transformed the small town.

Unlike gradual or steady growth, rapid growth implies a rate that may be difficult to sustain or manage.

Opposites
speed of change

rapid growthslow growth

Minimal rate of increase

steady growth · organic growth

direction of change

rapid growthsteep decline

nosedive · freefall · free fall

dynamism

rapid growthstagnation

Absence of flow or progress

stasis · standstill · zero growth · equilibrium · plateau

Family

growth, rapid

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G