Definition of QUICK

quick

Plural: quicks

Noun

  • The sensitive, living flesh under a fingernail or toenail.
  • any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)
  • Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
  • Plants used in making a quickset hedge
  • The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
  • Synonym of living (“those who are alive”).
  • Quitchgrass.
  • A fast bowler.

Adjective Satellite

  • accomplished rapidly and without delay
    • "was quick to make friends"
    • "his quick reaction prevented an accident"
  • hurried and brief
    • "a quick inspection"
  • moving quickly and lightly
    • "quick of foot"
  • apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity
    • "a quick mind"
  • performed with little or no delay
    • "was quick to respond"
  • easily aroused or excited
    • "a quick temper"

Adverb

  • with little or no delay
    • "come here, quick!"

Adj

  • Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
  • Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
  • Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
  • Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
  • Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
  • Alive, living.
  • At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.
  • Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
  • Flowing, not stagnant.
  • Burning, flammable, fiery.
  • Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
  • productive; not "dead" or barren
  • Not cryptic.

Adv

  • Quickly, in a quick manner.
  • Answer quickly.

Verb

  • To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
  • To quicken.

Adjective

  • Moving or doing something with great speed; prompt.

Examples

  • Come here, quick!
  • Get rich quick.
  • He is wont to be rather quick of temper when tired.
  • He's a quick runner.
  • His QUICK thinking allowed him to spot a bingo opportunity others missed.
  • Hitting a double-triple play was like scoring points to the QUICK of his opponent’s strategy.
  • I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.
  • My father is old but he still has a quick wit.
  • She has a very quick temper.
  • That was a quick meal.
  • the quick and the dead
  • You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English quik, quic, from Old English cwic (“alive”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwiku, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”), from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”), *gʷeyh₃w- (“to live”).
Cognate with Dutch kwik, kwiek, German keck, Danish kvik (“quick, quick-witted”) and Danish kæk (“bold; spirited”), Swedish kvick; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”), Latin vivus, Lithuanian gývas (“alive”), Latvian dzīvs (“alive”), Russian живо́й (živój), Polish żywy (“alive”), Welsh byw (“alive”), Irish beo (“alive”), biathaigh (“feed”), Northern Kurdish jîn (“to live”), jiyan (“life”), giyan (“soul”), can (“soul”), Sanskrit जीव (jīva, “living”), Albanian nxit (“to urge, stimulate”). Doublet of jiva.

Antonyms

;, dead, dead#Noun, deceased#Noun, departed#Noun, slow

Scrabble Score: 20

quick: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
quick: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
quick: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 22

quick: valid Words With Friends Word