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fast-growing

fast-growing adjective: growing rapidly.

Adjective

fast-growing (comparative faster-growing, superlative fastest-growing)

  1. Growing rapidly.
    • A fast-growing traffic of which British Railways should receive a larger share is the delivery of new private cars from manufacturer to local dealer.1960 June, “British cars go by rail: I-The L.M.R. wins new Anglo-Scottish traffic”, in Trains Illustrated, page 335
    • The study, which mapped the vaccine conversation on Facebook during the 2019 measles outbreak, found that there were nearly three times as many active anti-vaccination communities as pro-vaccination communities. In addition, they found that while pro-vaccine pages tended to have more followers...2020 May 13, Kevin Roose, “Get Ready for a Vaccine Information War”, in The New York Times
    Antonyms:
    slow-growing

Antonyms of fast-growing

Forms of fast-growing

comparativefaster-growing
superlativefastest-growing
alternative formfastgrowing

Origin of fast-growing

From fast + growing.

Questions about fast-growing

What does fast-growing mean?
Fast-growing means growing rapidly.
What part of speech is fast-growing?
Fast-growing is an adjective.

Words near fast-growing in the dictionary

  1. fast-foods
  2. fast-forward
  3. fast-forwarded
  4. fast-forwarding
  5. fast-forwards
  6. fast-growing
  7. fast-handed
  8. fast-mo
  9. fast-moving
  10. fast-neutron reactor
  11. fast-neutron reactors

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