Definitions for Quick

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Quick quick

Spelling: [kwik]

IPA: /kwɪk/

Quick is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in Quick (cikqu).

Definitions for Quick

noun

1. living persons:
2. the tender, sensitive flesh of the living body, especially that under the nails:
3. the vital or most important part.
4. Chiefly British. a line of shrubs or plants, especially of hawthorn, forming a hedge. a single shrub or plant in such a hedge.

Idioms

1. cut to the quick, to injure deeply; hurt the feelings of:

adverb

1. quickly.

adjective

1. done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate:
2. that is over or completed within a short interval of time:
3. moving, or able to move, with speed:
4. swift or rapid, as motion:
5. easily provoked or excited; hasty:
6. keenly responsive; lively; acute:
7. acting with swiftness or rapidity:
8. prompt or swift to do something:
9. prompt to perceive; sensitive:
10. prompt to understand, learn, etc.; of ready intelligence:
11. (of a bend or curve) sharp:
12. consisting of living plants:
13. brisk, as fire, flames, heat, etc.
14. Archaic. endowed with life. having a high degree of vigor, energy, or activity.

Origin of Quick

before 900; Middle English quik lively, moving, swift; Old English cwic, cwicu living; cognate with Old Saxon quik, German queck, keck, Old Norse kvikr; akin to Latin vīvus living (see

Examples for Quick

He could deliver a quick, effective speech, or hold a proper press conference.

Suddenly Eucoline touched my arm with a quick and timid motion.

Other footage shows him fleeing, keeping to a quick walk, jogging briefly, then walking again as he heads for a subway station.

He's not so large or tall, but quick and springy, and muscled like a panther.

Hipparete blushed, and with a quick and nervous motion touched her cithara.

American lawmakers were quick to praise the military operation.

Obeying a quick impulse, Percival stepped to the curb as she came opposite to him.

Most people know the Universal Life Church as a quick and easy place to get ordained without leaving your couch.

Geisbert was also quick to mention how the methodology of the study could be affecting the current results.

He took two quick steps forward and grasped one of her wrists.