quick

Meanings

Adjective

• 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.
• Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
• Alive, living.
• Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
• Of water: flowing.
• Burning, flammable, fiery.
• Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
• productive; not "dead" or barren

Adverb

• Quickly, in a quick manner.

Noun

• 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.
• Quitchgrass.
• A fast bowler.

Verb

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

Related

Similar words

• hotheaded, rattish, short-tempered, snippish, snippy

Opposite words

• slow
• dead

Origin

• From Middle English quik, quic, from Old English cwic, from Proto-West Germanic *kwik(k)w, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós, from *gʷeyh₃-, *gʷeyh₃w-.
• Cognate with Dutch kwik, kwiek, German keck, Swedish kvick; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek βίος, Latin vivus, Lithuanian gývas ("alive"), Latvian dzīvs, Russian живо́й, Welsh byw, Irish beo, biathaigh, Northern Kurdish jîn, jiyan, giyan, can, Sanskrit जीव, Albanian nxit ("to urge, stimulate"). jiva.