Quick

Quick meaning: Quick is an adjective meaning Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.

Meaning

Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.

More Meanings

1. Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
2. Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
3. Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
4. (of people or tempers) Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
5. (now rare, archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
6. (archaic) Alive, living.
7. (archaic, of a foetus) At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.

Example Sentences

He's a quick runner.

That was a quick meal.

She has a very quick temper.

My father is old but he still has a quick wit.

Word Forms

• quicker
• quickest
• quicks
• quicking
• quicked

Synonyms for quick

Depending on context, synonyms include fast, speedy, rapid, swift, brief, momentary.

Antonyms for quick

Common opposites include slow, dead, deceased, departed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include speedy, prompt, hurried, agile, nimble, spry.

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