ADJECTIVE quick COMPARATIVE quicker SUPERLATIVE quickest

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quick English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word quick once they have reached the level A1 – Beginner. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning quick meaning

What does quick mean?

Definitions in simple English

quick Adjective

— Using very little time; moving far in little time. You are able to run very quickly. I will wash quickly. He learns quickly.

quick Adverb

— Done rapidly. He finished quick.

quick

— adjective (= speedy) 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

— adverb (= promptly) with little or no delay the rescue squad arrived promptly come here, quick!

— adjective (= flying, fast) hurried and brief paid a flying visit took a flying glance at the book a quick inspection a fast visit

— adjective (= agile, nimble, spry) 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

— adjective (= warm) easily aroused or excited a quick temper a warm temper

— adjective (= ready) apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity a quick mind a ready wit

— adjective (= immediate, prompt, straightaway) performed with little or no delay an immediate reply to my letter a prompt reply was quick to respond a straightaway denial

— noun any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)

Synonyms quick synonyms

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quick English » English

fast

rapid

swift

speedy

prompt

agile

nimble

smart

quickly

expeditious

brisk

hasty

lively

sharp

hurried

fleet

alert

active

sudden

ready

clever

promptly

immediate

hurry

flying

energetic

deft

strong

spry

speed

soon

shrewd

intelligent

diligent

bright

urgent

swiftly

straightaway

quick-witted

presto

powerful

living

instantaneous

hurry up

hasten

efficient

early

be fast

alive

adroit

Topics quick topics

What do people use quick to talk about?

States Time Speed

Quick

• What words describe an action that is done quickly?
  fast quick quickly quickness speedy speeding speedily speed hasty hastily haste rapid rapidly rapidity hurry hurried hurriedly in a hurry swift swiftly swiftness rush rush into rush through in a rush express
• What do you say to someone when you want him to hurry?
  Hurry up! Move it! Let's go, let's go! Quick! Faster! Speed it up! Get a move on! Giddy up! (horse)

Language and thought Think Mind

Intelligent

• What words describe someone who can think quickly?
  quick sharp whiz be quick on the uptake be on the ball think on your feet

Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Move quickly

• What words refer to moving quickly?
  move quickly hurry haste hasten rush forge ahead charge barrel along move like a bat out of hell make a beeline for boil bolt bustle move along at a good clip dart double-time fast fire flash flat-out fling flit fly gallop move like greased lightning be really hopping kick lickety-split plunge in quick race rapid rapidly rapidity run rush sail scour scud shoot move like sixty skim snappily speed stampede streak sweep swift swiftly swing tear apace tilt vroom whiz wildfire zip zoom at full speed at top speed express make tracks burn up the track

Grammar General words Do

Change something

• What words describe a quick change?
  quick fast rapid

Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Tense and aspect

Aspect--dynamic verbs

• What words are used to indicate that something is being done quickly?
  quick quickly rapidly

Person Sense, perceive See

Look

• What words refer to looking at something for a short time?
  glance cursory glance look at briefly (eyes) flicker over take a quick look

Person Healthy Sick

Recover from sickness

• What words refer to recovering?
  recover get better make a slow/quick/complete recovery get well feel better improve be on the mend respond to treatment regain your health gain strength make good progress

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Angry

• What words describe a person who gets angry often or easily?
  have a temper irascible bilious cantankerous choleric cranky grouch hot tempered hot headed ill-tempered irascible irritable easily offended quick-tempered prim prude sensitive thin-skinned touchy

Language and thought Communication Say Ask

Answer

• What words refer to the time it takes to answer?
  take a long time to answer take your time to answer quick reply response time

Social behavior Social activity

Humor

• What words describe a person who jokes?
  witty quick-witted smart jocular droll funny waggish facetious whimsical humorous comic

Social behavior Behavior Good, moral Patient

Bad-tempered

• What words describe someone who gets angry easily?
  short-tempered quick-tempered have a short fuse temper

States Time Take time

A short time

• What words refer to taking a short time to do something?
  be brief be quick

Examples quick examples

How do I use quick in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Be quick, or you will miss the train.

The policeman's quick arrival surprised us.

Come quick!

The quick brown fox may as well go fuck the lazy dog.

Tom is used to making quick decisions.

He's really quick.

She was not quick enough.

I'm very quick.

There's enough time for a quick snack.

Let's catch a quick bite.

Squirrels are quick of movement.

Boxers need quick reflexes.

Get over here and be quick about it!

We are hoping for your quick recovery.

Quick, let's get started on the project proposal while the idea is still fresh in our minds. There's no time like the present.

A woman is giving a book a quick once-over.

Bring me some water, and be quick about it.

So quick!

As quick as a wink.

Quick, run after him.

Albert is quick at learning.

The candidate made a quick response to the criticism.

Be quick! We haven't much time.

Movie subtitles

Come, quick!

Need quick hands, Billy.

OK, let's go. Quick as we can please, quick as we can.

Oh, hold on, I want to check my e-mail real quick.

Quick question.

Uh, natural burial, closed casket, quick interment.

A quick question, Reverend?

Hi. A quick word?

I'll have to be quick, Susan's still in her cot.

And if I was too quick to mistake your caution for dishonesty, then the fault's mine.

A quick round in the Black Sail, one for the road in the Hand and Shears, and then off to Walthamstow dogs, stag party done and dusted.

I didn't think it was gonna be this quick.

By pneumatic mail, quick!

Well, that was not too difficult, a quick, simple, calculation.

The lady doesn't want to see you. Go, quick!

These people are hotheads a bit quick-tempered, but they cool down as quickly.

Go! Quick.

Yeah, but if it gets too creepy, I want a quick exit.

You have to get to the castle quick.

Quick, pay him!

Come quick!

Keep your hand up- the strangler's noose coils quick!

Your answer. quick - they can survive but a few moments!

Tomorrow's too quick.

He very quick with his knife.

Oh, quick work, son.

Get on your long underwear quick. Why?

Go and see. quick!

Quick question. - Yeah?

We'd like to get married quick.

Organic machinery is a quick fix, but it doesn't last long.

I catch on quick.

We gotta be quick too.

Let me outta here. Get me out of here quick.

Get me out of here, quick.

I believe it will be a quick war. that there will be few losses.

Doctor, come quick.

News and current affairs

Driven by short-term electoral horizons, policymakers repeatedly seek a quick fix - another bailout or one more liquidity injection.

Afghanistan is no place for quick fixes.

The United States, quick to capitalize on regional concerns triggered by China's increasingly muscular self-assertion, has strengthened its military ties with its existing Asian allies and forged security relationships with new friends.

His boundless energy and quick thinking delivered success from behind the scenes.

But effective or quick suppression of the organized criminals who were almost certainly behind Djindjic's murder is unlikely.

Because an impasse beckons, it is vitally important to work on those areas where intensive negotiations have the potential to produce quick results.

The deaths of Yasir Arafat and of Sheikh Zayd, the long-standing ruler of the United Arab Emirates, continues the generational change that began in 1999-2000, when the leaders of Jordan, Morocco, Bahrain, and Syria died in quick succession.

Governments have been quick to believe that the protests are fundamentally about high prices and unemployment, but the issue that unites Arab discontent is inadequate governance.

The Eastern Partnership does not offer any quick remedies to the crisis.

For these reasons, the UK should have had a quick recovery; instead, the Cameron government's gratuitous austerity stifled it.

This brand of diplomacy is not quick or easy.

It is not an easy task, and there are no quick fixes.

Of course, there was much else in the manifesto - fantasies about reviving the medieval Knights Templar, for example - that suggests a more bizarre disposition, and Wilders was quick to distance himself from Breivik's violent methods.

After all, Iran was quick to recognize that free elections are the safest way to undermine the Middle East's pro-American regimes.

So we shouldn't be too quick to dismiss the suggestion that science might help - in the first instance, by helping us design more effective institutions, more inspiring moral education, or more persuasive ethical arguments.

Meanwhile, as Wolfgang Streeck writes persuasively in New Left Review, democratic governments, facing what seemed, in the 1960's, like an endless vista of innovation and growth, were quick to expand the welfare state.

The US is the only country with large state of the art air, naval, and ground forces capable of global deployment - thus, the quick victory in Iraq last year.

But politicians may need two steps: an initial failure to agree, and then a quick deal in response to the resulting financial-market convulsions.

But this is not how the future was sold to the public, and, until recently, financial markets were acting as if recovery was at hand and would be relatively quick.

But has Barack Obama's administration been too quick to embrace what was, until recently, one of the world's most repressive regimes?

But this lack of quick success does not mean that these efforts are futile.

If the only economics course you take is the typical introductory survey, or if you are a journalist asking an economist for a quick opinion on a policy issue, that is indeed what you will encounter.