quick

1. 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. 2

   Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.

   • That was a quick meal.
3. 3

   Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.

   • You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.
4. 4

   Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.

   • My father is old but he still has a quick wit.
5. 5

   Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.

   • She has a very quick temper.
   • He is wont to be rather quick of temper when tired.
6. 6

   Alive, living.archaic

   • I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Ieſus Chriſt, who ſhall iudge the quicke and the dead at his appearing, and his kingdome:
   • Man is no star, but a quick coal / Of mortal fire.
7. 7

   At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.archaic

   • Whoever does any act under such circumstances that if he thereby caused death he would be guilty of culpable homicide, and does by such act cause the death of a quick unborn child, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may ex
8. 8

   Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.archaic

   • she's quick; the child brags in her belly already: tis yours
   • Invention sleeps within a skull No longer quick with light, The hive that hummed in every cell Is now sealed honey-tight.
9. 9

   Flowing, not stagnant.archaic

10. 10

    Burning, flammable, fiery.archaic

    • And it seemed to me that the dream smote the roof above my bed, and the roof opened and disclosed the outer dark, and in the dark travelled a bearded star, and the night was quick with fiery signs.

syn. speedy · rapid · swift · momentary · short-lived · droll · keen · intelligent · live · vital · gravid · with child

ant. slow · dead

1. 1

   Quickly, in a quick manner.

   • Get rich quick.
   • Come here, quick!
2. 2

   Answer quickly.

   • Quick, how do you spell 'Krabs'?

1. 1

   Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.

2. 2

   Plants used in making a quickset hedge.

   • The works […] are curiously hedged with quick.
3. 3

   The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.

   • This test nippeth, […] this toucheth the quick.
   • How feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference!
4. 4

   Synonym of living (“those who are alive”).archaicwith-definite-article

   • the quick and the dead
5. 5

   Quitchgrass.

   • Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet, Rings Eden thro' the budded quicks
6. 6

   A fast bowler.

1. 1

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

2. 2

   To quicken.archaicpoetictransitive

   • I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey.