Hi all, who would explain to me reason why “soar " with meaning " rises very quickly " , so many people still use " rapidly " adverb after " soar” . I feel it actually is such redundancy . My point of view, I don’t agree this use and suppose that it is fault of writer .
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I agree that the phrase “to soar rapidly” is probably a tautology.
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‘Soared rapidly’ does not sound redundant to me. The word soar might commonly imply that it’s rapid, but its not implicit in the definition. Even if it’s implicit, the word ‘rapidly’ emphasizes how fast it rises. To me, the word soar is more about how far it rises, not how fast.
It’s a matter of degree.
The price soared
The price soared rapidly
The price soared extremely fast
The price soared faster than anything we’ve seen in history.
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I think that ‘to soar’ is an interesting verb because it has a very limited number of modifiers that you can combine it with. For example, you certainly wouldn’t say that something is ‘soaring slowly’ or ‘slightly’ increasing because the verb ‘to soar’ already implies that something is growing or increasing rapidly. So when you modify soar with ‘rapidly’, you are basically doubling its meaning.
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Exactly, this is such answer I need <3
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While I wouldn’t say that “soared rapidly” is wrong, I think that “rapidly“ draws away from the impact of the word “soared”. When used with economic terms, I think it carries the “dramatically increase” meaning. “Soared” already carries a strong dramatic visual image which is why the writer used it, but adding “rapidly” draws away from it.
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