Quick

[kwɪk]

Definition

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

(adj.) easily aroused or excited; 'a quick temper'; 'a warm temper' .

(adj.) accomplished rapidly and without delay; 'was quick to make friends'; 'his quick reaction prevented an accident'; 'hoped for a speedy resolution of the problem'; 'a speedy recovery'; 'he has a right to a speedy trial' .

(adj.) apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity; 'a quick mind'; 'a ready wit' .

Checked by Bernadette--From WordNet

Definition

(superl.) Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate.

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

(superl.) Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick.

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

(superl.) Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.

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

(superl.) Pregnant; with child.

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

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

(n.) 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.

(n.) Quitch grass.

(v. t. & i.) To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive.

Editor: Pasquale

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Active, nimble, agile, alert, brisk, prompt, ready.[2]. Rapid, swift, speedy, fleet, hasty, expeditious, hurried, flying.[3]. Dexterous, adroit, skilful, expert, apt.[4]. Acute, clever, sharp, shrewd, keen, intelligent, sagacious, discerning.[5]. Hasty, choleric, passionate, testy, irritable, touchy, waspish, petulant, irascible, peppery, snappish.

ad. Quickly.

Editor: Spence

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Fast, rapid, speedy, expeditious, swift, hasty, prompt, ready, clever, sharp,shrewd, adroit, keen, fleet, active, brisk, nimble, lively, agile, alert,sprightly, transient, intelligent, irascible

ANT:Slow, tardy, sluggish, inert, inactive, dull, insensitive

Editor: Martin

Definition

adj. living: lively: speedy: nimble: ready: sensitive: hasty: pregnant: active piercing.—adv. without delay: rapidly: soon.—n. a living animal or plant: the living: the living flesh: the sensitive parts: a hedge of some growing plant quickset.—adj. Quick′-an′swered (Shak.) quick at giving an answer.—n. Quick′beam the mountain-ash or rowan.—adj. Quick′-conceiv′ing quick at conceiving or understanding.—v.t. Quick′en to make quick or alive: to revive: to reinvigorate: to cheer: to excite: to sharpen: to hasten.—v.i. to become alive: to move with activity.—n. the couch or quitch-grass.—ns. Quick′ener one who or that which reinvigorates; Quick′ening the period in pregnancy when the mother first becomes conscious of the movement of the child—from the sixteenth or seventeenth week onwards.—adj. Quick′-eyed having acute sight.—ns. Quick′-grass=Quitch-grass; Quick′-hedge a hedge of living plants; Quick′lime recently burnt lime caustic and unslaked: carbonate of lime without its carbonic acid.—adv. Quick′ly.—ns. Quick′march (same as Quick′step); Quick′match (see Match); Quick′ness; Quick′sand a movable sandbank in a sea lake &c. any large mass of sand saturated with water often dangerous to travellers: anything treacherous.—adj. Quick′-scent′ed having a keen scent.—n. Quick′set a living plant set to grow for a hedge particularly the hawthorn.—adj. consisting of living plants.—adj. Quick′-sight′ed having quick or sharp sight: quick in discernment.—ns. Quick′-sight′edness sharpness of sight or discernment; Quick′silver the common name for fluid mercury so called from its great mobility and its silvery colour.—v.t. to overlay or to treat with quicksilver.—adj. Quick′silvered.—ns. Quick′silvering the mercury on the back of a mirror; Quick′step a march in quick time: (mus.) a march written in military quick time.—adj. Quick′-tem′pered irascible.—n. Quick′-wa′ter a solution of nitrates of mercury and of gold for water-gilding.—adj. Quick′-wit′ted having ready wit.—ns. Quick′-wit′tedness; Quick′-work the part of a ship under water when laden: the part of the inner upper-works of a ship above the covering board: the short planks worked inside between the ports: spirketting.—Some quick (Spens.) something alive.

Typist: Suzy

Examples

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