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Variant of quick

quick definition

quick (kwik)

adjective

  1. Archaic living; alive
    1. rapid; swift a quick walk
    2. done with promptness; prompt a quick reply
    3. acting swiftly a quick worker
  2. lasting only a moment a quick look
  3. prompt to understand or learn a quick mind
  4. sensitive; acutely perceptive a quick sense of smell
  5. easily stirred; fiery a quick temper
  6. sharply curved a quick turn
  7. Archaic pregnant

Etymology: ME quik, lively, alive < OE cwicu, living: see bio-

adverb

quickly; rapidly

noun

  1. the living, esp. in the quick and the dead
  2. the sensitive flesh under a toenail or fingernail
  3. the deepest feelings or sensibilities cut to the quick by the insult

transitive verb

Archaic to animate; invigorate

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quickly Synonyms

quickly

modif.

  1. Rapidly

    speedily, swiftly, fast, briskly, fleetly, flying, with dispatch, scurrying, hurrying, rushing, shooting, bolting, darting, flashing, dashing, suddenly, expeditiously, hastily, hurriedly, in haste, in great haste, in a hurry, by forced marches, at a great rate, without delay, under press of sail, in full sail, against the clock, racing, galloping, loping, sweeping, light-footedly, wingedly, like a bat out of hell*, on the double*, like all forty*, in a flash*, in a jiffy*, to beat the band*, at full blast*, in full sail*, hellbent for leather*, like mad*, at one jump*, by leaps and bounds*, like a house afire*, double-time*, like crazy*, like fury*, full steam ahead*, in high gear*.

    Antonyms slowly*, sluggishly, creepingly.

  2. Soon

    at once, instantly, promptly, on the nail*, pronto*; see also immediately, soon 1.


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quickly quotes

It is much easier to playa thing quickly than to play it slowly.

-Mozart, (Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus

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