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- [kwik]
- /kwɪk/
- /kwɪk/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [kwik]
- /kwɪk/
Definitions of quick word
- adjective quick done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response. 1
- adjective quick that is over or completed within a short interval of time: a quick shower. 1
- adjective quick moving, or able to move, with speed: a quick fox; a quick train. 1
- adjective quick swift or rapid, as motion: a quick flick of the wrist. 1
- adjective quick easily provoked or excited; hasty: a quick temper. 1
- adjective quick keenly responsive; lively; acute: a quick wit. 1
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Origin of quick
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English quik lively, moving, swift; Old English cwic, cwicu living; cognate with Old Saxon quik, German queck, keck, Old Norse kvikr; akin to Latin vīvus living (see vital), Sanskrit jivas living, Greek bíos life (see bio-), zoḗ animal life (see zoo-)
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Quick
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
quick popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
quick usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for quick
adverb quick
- make it snappy — apt to snap or bite; snappish, as a dog.
- soon — within a short period after this or that time, event, etc.: We shall know soon after he calls.
- proximately — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
- quickly — with speed; rapidly; very soon.
- on the dot — a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.
adjective quick
- rapid — occurring within a short time; happening speedily: rapid growth.
- speedy — characterized by speed; rapid; swift; fast.
- swift — moving or capable of moving with great speed or velocity; fleet; rapid: a swift ship.
- hasty — moving or acting with haste; speedy; quick; hurried.
- hurried — moving or working rapidly, especially forced or required to hurry, as a person.
noun quick
- main idea — the most important or central thought of a paragraph or larger section of text, which tells the reader what the text is about: Find the main idea in each paragraph.
- mainspring — the principal spring in a mechanism, as in a watch.
- hotbed — a bottomless, boxlike, usually glass-covered structure and the bed of earth it covers, heated typically by fermenting manure or electrical cables, for growing plants out of season.
- equidistance — (uncountable) Equal distance.
- centrality — the state or condition of being central
Antonyms for quick
adjective quick
- slow — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
- delayed — of or relating to a particle, as a neutron or alpha particle, that is emitted from an excited nucleus formed in a nuclear reaction, the emission occurring some time after the reaction is completed.
- clumsy — A clumsy person moves or handles things in a careless, awkward way, often so that things are knocked over or broken.
- idle — not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing: idle workers.
- inactive — not active: an inactive volcano.
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