quick

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English quik, quic, from Old English cwic (“alive”), from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”), from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”), *gʷeih₃w- (“to live”). Cognate with Dutch kwik, kwiek, German keck, Swedish kvick; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”), Latin vivus, Lithuanian gývas (“alive”), Latvian dzīvs (“alive”), Russian живо́й (živój), Welsh byw (“alive”), Irish beo (“alive”), biathaigh (“feed”), Kurdish jîn (“to live”), jiyan (“life”), giyan (“soul”), can (“soul”), Sanskrit जीव (jīva, “living”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /kwɪk/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪk

Adjective[edit]

quick (comparative quicker, superlative quickest)

  1. Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
    I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.
    He's a quick runner.
  2. Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
    That was a quick meal.
  3. Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
    You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.
  4. Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
    My father is old but he still has a quick wit.
  5. Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
    • Latimer
      The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended.
  6. (archaic) Alive, living.
    • Bible, 2 Timothy iv. 1
      the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead
    • Herbert
      Man is no star, but a quick coal / Of mortal fire.
    • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, X
      The inmost oratory of my soul,
      Wherein thou ever dwellest quick or dead,
      Is black with grief eternal for thy sake.
  7. (archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
    • Shakespeare
      she's quick; the child brags in her belly already: tis yours
  8. Of water: flowing.
  9. Burning, flammable, fiery.
  10. Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
    • Shakespeare
      The air is quick there, / And it pierces and sharpens the stomach.
  11. (mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren

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Antonyms[edit]

  • (moving with speed): slow

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Translations[edit]

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Adverb[edit]

quick (comparative quicker, superlative quickest)

  1. quickly
  2. (colloquial) with speed
    Get rich quick.
    Come here, quick!
    • John Locke
      If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed.

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Noun[edit]

quick (plural quicks)

  1. raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
  2. plants used in making a quickset hedge
    • Evelyn
      The works […] are curiously hedged with quick.
  3. The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
    • Latimer
      This test nippeth, […] this toucheth the quick.
    • Fuller
      How feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference!
  4. quitchgrass
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Tennyson to this entry?)
  5. (cricket) A fast bowler.

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Verb[edit]

quick (third-person singular simple present quicks, present participle quicking, simple past and past participle quicked)

  1. (transitive) To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
  2. (transitive, archaic, poetic) To quicken.
    • Thomas Hardy
      I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey.

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

quick m (plural quicks)

  1. quick waltz

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German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Middle Low German quick, from Old Saxon quik, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz. Also a Central Franconian form; compare early modern German quick (Cologne, 15th century). Doublet of keck, which see for more.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

quick (comparative quicker, superlative am quicksten)

  1. (rather rare, dated) lively

Usage notes[edit]

  • Much more common than the simplex is the pleonastic compound quicklebendig.

Declension[edit]

Positive forms of quick
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative er ist quick sie ist quick es ist quick sie sind quick
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative quicker quicke quickes quicke
genitive quicken quicker quicken quicker
dative quickem quicker quickem quicken
accusative quicken quicke quickes quicke
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der quicke die quicke das quicke die quicken
genitive des quicken der quicken des quicken der quicken
dative dem quicken der quicken dem quicken den quicken
accusative den quicken die quicke das quicke die quicken
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein quicker eine quicke ein quickes (keine) quicken
genitive eines quicken einer quicken eines quicken (keiner) quicken
dative einem quicken einer quicken einem quicken (keinen) quicken
accusative einen quicken eine quicke ein quickes (keine) quicken
Comparative forms of quick
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative er ist quicker sie ist quicker es ist quicker sie sind quicker
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative quickerer quickere quickeres quickere
genitive quickeren quickerer quickeren quickerer
dative quickerem quickerer quickerem quickeren
accusative quickeren quickere quickeres quickere
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der quickere die quickere das quickere die quickeren
genitive des quickeren der quickeren des quickeren der quickeren
dative dem quickeren der quickeren dem quickeren den quickeren
accusative den quickeren die quickere das quickere die quickeren
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein quickerer eine quickere ein quickeres (keine) quickeren
genitive eines quickeren einer quickeren eines quickeren (keiner) quickeren
dative einem quickeren einer quickeren einem quickeren (keinen) quickeren
accusative einen quickeren eine quickere ein quickeres (keine) quickeren
Superlative forms of quick
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative er ist am quicksten sie ist am quicksten es ist am quicksten sie sind am quicksten
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative quickster quickste quickstes quickste
genitive quicksten quickster quicksten quickster
dative quickstem quickster quickstem quicksten
accusative quicksten quickste quickstes quickste
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der quickste die quickste das quickste die quicksten
genitive des quicksten der quicksten des quicksten der quicksten
dative dem quicksten der quicksten dem quicksten den quicksten
accusative den quicksten die quickste das quickste die quicksten
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein quickster eine quickste ein quickstes (keine) quicksten
genitive eines quicksten einer quicksten eines quicksten (keiner) quicksten
dative einem quicksten einer quicksten einem quicksten (keinen) quicksten
accusative einen quicksten eine quickste ein quickstes (keine) quicksten

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