Dictionary Definition
quick adj
1 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" [syn: speedy]
2 hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit"; "took
a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit"
[syn: flying, fast]
3 moving quickly and lightly; "sleek and agile as
a gymnast"; "as nimble as a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of
foot"; "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before
we could stop it" [syn: agile, nimble, spry]
4 apprehending and responding with speed and
sensitivity; "a quick mind"; "a ready wit" [syn: ready]
5 performed with little or no delay; "an
immediate reply to my letter"; "prompt obedience"; "was quick to
respond"; "a straightaway denial" [syn: immediate, prompt, straightaway]
6 easily aroused or excited; "a quick temper"; "a
warm temper" [syn: warm] n
: any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the
flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail) adv : with
little or no delay; "the rescue squad arrived promptly"; "come
here, quick!" [syn: promptly, quickly]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /kwɪk/
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- Rhymes: -ɪk
Etymology
Old English cwic, from Germanic *|kwikwa-, from *|gʷih₃u̯os, from *|gʷei-. Cognate with Dutch kwiek, German keck, Swedish kvick; and (from Indo-European) with Greek sc=Grek, Latin vivus, Lithuanian gývas, Latvian dzivs, Russian sc=Cyrl, Irish biathaim.Adjective
en-adj er- Moving with speed,
rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing
so; rapid; fast.
- I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.
- He's a quick runner.
- I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.
- Occuring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
- That was a quick meal.
- Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
- You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.
- Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
- My father is old but he still has a quick wit.
- Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
- Alive, living.
- The quick and the dead.
- Pregnant,
especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt;
figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
- She was quick with child.
- Of water: flowing.
- Burning, flammable, fiery.
Synonyms
- sense moving with speed fast, speedy, rapid, swift
Antonyms
- sense moving with speed slow
Related terms
- quick fix
- quicken
- quicklime
- quicksand
- quicksilver
- quick smart
- quickstep
- quick-witted
- wiki-wiki
- quickly
- quickie
Translations
moving with speed
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 快 (kuài)
- Dutch: snel, vlug, rap
- Finnish: nopea, vikkelä
- French: rapide
- German: schnell, geschwind, rasch
- Hungarian: gyors
- Icelandic: fljótur
- Irish: luath
- Italian: rapido
- Japanese: 速い, はやい
- Korean: 빠른 (ppareun)
- Kurdish:
- Norwegian: rask, kvikk
- Portuguese: rápido, ligeiro
- Russian: быстрый
- Spanish: rápido
- Swedish: snabb snabbt , rapp rappt
occurring in a short time
lively, witty
mentally agile, perceptive
easily aroused to anger
- Finnish: äkkipikainen
- Russian: вспыльчивый
alive
- Finnish: elävä
- German: quicklebendig
- Norwegian: frisk og rask (literally healthy and quick)
- Russian: живой (živoj)
pregnant
flowing
- Finnish: virtaava
burning, fiery
Adverb
en-adv er- quickly
- get rich quick
- come here, quick!
- get rich quick
Related terms
- cut to the quick Literally, to cut or clip fingernails or toenails short and close to the quick, increasing sensitivity and/or causing pain and/or drawing blood. Figuratively, to cut it close, to leave a narrow margin, to leave little room for escape, to run a risk, etc.
Translations
sensitive flesh
- Dutch: levend vlees
- Irish: beo
References
Extensive Definition
Quick may refer to:
- Quick (newspaper), a product of The Dallas Morning News in Texas
- QUICK screening, a method to detect endogenous protein-protein interactions with very high confidence
- Quick clay, a unique form of highly sensitive marine clay
- Quick kick, a kick in American football and Canadian football
- Quick Draw McGraw, a fictional cartoon antropomorphic Horse
- Quick & Flupke, a comic book series by Hergé
- Quick (restaurant chain) in France and Belgium
- USS Quick (DD-490), a US Navy ship during World War II
- Quick (sportswear), a Dutch manufacturer of sportswear
- Quick (automobile), an American automobile
- Quick (film), a 1993 Teri Polo film
- the raw or exposed area of flesh commonly referring to where the skin meets the tip of the fingernail
In people:
- Harry Quick, Australian politician
- Johnny Quick, two distinct DC Comics characters
- Mike Quick, former American Football player
- Richard Quick, a women's swimming team coach
In music:
- The Quick (US band), a rock band from Los Angeles
- The Quick (UK band), a pop band from England
See also
quick in Arabic: كويك
quick in German: Quick
quick in French: Quick
quick in Dutch: Quick
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Daedalian, able, aboveground, abrupt, acquiescent, acute, adept, adroit, agile, agog, agreeable, alacritous, alert, alive, alive and kicking, all
agog, amain, amenable, among the living,
animate, animated, anxious, apace, apt, ardent, artistic, astute, at flank speed, attentive, authoritative, avid, awake, bosom, brainy, bravura, breakneck, breast, breathing, breathless, brief, bright, brilliant, brisk, bursting to, canny, capable, capable of life, center
of life, clean, clever, combustible, cometary, competent, compliant, conscious, consenting, content, cooperative, coordinated, core, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cursory, cute, daedal, dashing, decisive, deft, desirous, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, discerning, dispatchful, disposed, docile, double-quick, eager, eagle-winged, educable, effective, effectual, electrifying, endowed with
life, energetic,
enlivened, enthusiastic, esoteric
reality, excellent,
excitable, existent, expeditious, expeditiously, expert, explosive, exposed nerve,
express, facile, fain, fancy, fast, favorable, favorably disposed,
favorably inclined, festinate, feverish, fiery, flashing, flat-out, fleet, flickering, flying, formable, forward, full of life, furious, galloping, game, gifted, good, goodish, graceful, hair-trigger, hand
over fist, hand over hand, handy, hastily, hasty, headlong, heart, heart of hearts, hell for
leather, hell-bent, hell-bent for election, hep, hot, hot-tempered, hotheaded, hurried, hustling, immediate, impatient, impetuous, impressionable, impulsive, in double time, in
double-quick time, in high, in high gear, in seven-league boots, in
the flesh, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, ingenious, inmost heart,
inmost soul, inner man, inner nature, inside, inspirited, instant, instantaneous, instinct
with life, instructable, intelligent, irascible, irritable, keen, keen-witted, knowing, last-minute,
lickety-cut, lickety-split, light of heel, light-footed, live, lively, living, long-lived, magisterial, malleable, masterful, masterly, mercurial, meteoric, minded, moldable, motivated, neat, nerve center, nerve ending,
nerve-shattering, nimble,
nimble-footed, nimble-witted, no dumbbell, no mean, not born
yesterday, on the, on the alert, on the ball, on the double, on the
job, on the spot, overhasty, panting, passing, passionate, peppery, perceptive, perfunctory, perspicacious, petulant, pith, plastic, pliable, pliant, politic, post, posthaste, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, predisposed, professional, proficient, prompt, promptly, prone, punctual, qui vive, quick as
lightning, quick as thought, quick-tempered, quick-thinking,
quick-witted, quickly,
quite some, rapid,
rapidly, raring to,
rash, raw, raw nerve, ready, ready and willing, receptive, reckless, resourceful, responsive, ripe for
instruction, root, running, schoolable, scintillating, secret
heart, sharp,
sharp-witted, shocking,
short, short and sweet,
short-tempered, short-term, short-termed, shrewd, skillful, slap-bang, slapdash, sleepless, slick, smart, snap, snappily, snappy, soft spot, some, sore point, sore spot,
soul, spanking, speedily, speedy, spirit, spirited, spry, spunky, startling, statesmanlike, steel-trap,
stylish, sudden, summary, superficial, surprising, susceptible, swift, swiftly, tactful, talented, teachable, tenacious of life,
tender spot, testy, the
compleat, the complete, the quick, thirsty for knowledge, timely, touchy, tractable, trainable, trippingly, true being, true
inwardness, unanticipated, unblinking, under forced
draft, unexpected,
unforeseen,
unlooked-for, unnodding, unpredicted, unsleeping, unwinking, urgent, very much alive, viable, vigorous, virtuoso, vital, vital principle, vitals, vivacious, vivid, vivified, volcanic, wakeful, well-disposed,
well-done, well-inclined, whip and spur, wide-awake, willed, willing, willinghearted, winged, with all haste, with
giant strides, with rapid strides, with speed, workmanlike, zealous, zestful, zoetic