Dictionary
quick
Meaning
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- 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.
- Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
- Alive, living.
- At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.
- Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
- Flowing, not stagnant.
- Burning, flammable, fiery.
- (obsolete) Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
- productive; not "dead" or barren
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kwɪk/
Cognate with Dutch
kwik
Cognate with German
keck
Cognate with Latin
vivus
Cognate with Polish
żywy
Cognate with Northern Kurdish
jîn
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