Meanings
comparative faster-paced · superlative fastest-paced · alternative fastpaced
- Moving or changing rapidly.
We went to see a fast-paced action film.
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On one level, the joy of the film is its rhyming couplet commentary, written by the late Paul le Saux and read alternately by Howard Marion Crawford and Alan Wheatley, which adds rhythmic pace to the already fast-paced editing.
2021 March 10, Greg Morse, “Telling the railway's story on film”, in RAIL, number 926, page 43Antonyms: slow-paced
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveMoving or changing rapidly.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveof communication that proceeds rapidly
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 節奏快的 /节奏快的, 快速的
- 節奏快的 /节奏快的 (jiézòu kuài de)moving or changing rapidly
- 快速的 (kuàisù de)moving or changing rapidly
Finnish nopeatempoinen
- nopeatempoinenmoving or changing rapidly
Polish szybki, dynamiczny
- szybkimoving or changing rapidly
- dynamicznymoving or changing rapidly
Cite this entry
fast-paced. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fast-paced
“fast-paced.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fast-paced. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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