quick, prompt, ready, apt mean able to respond without delay or hesitation or indicative of such ability. quick stresses instancy of response and is likely to connote native rather than acquired …

1. Sensitive or raw exposed flesh, as under the fingernails. 2. The most personal and sensitive aspect of the emotions: The remark cut her to the quick. 3. The living: the quick and the dead. …

Grammar Fast, quick or quickly? Fast and quick mean moving with great speed. Fast is both an adjective and an adverb. Quick is an adjective and the adverb form is quickly. …

Quick means happening without delay or with very little delay. Officials played down any hope for a quick end to the bloodshed.

The difference between the adverbial forms quick and quickly is frequently stylistic. Quick is more often used in short spoken sentences, especially imperative ones: Come quick!

QUICK definition: done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate. See examples of quick used in a sentence.

QUICK meaning: 1 : done or happening in a short amount of time; 2 : fast in thinking, learning, or understanding

Definition of quick adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Dec 17, 2025 · quick (comparative quicker or more quick, superlative quickest or most quick) Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast. quotations

If you are quick, you move with speed. You may be a quick runner or "a quick study" — if you tend to learn things quickly.