Synonyms of quick

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adjective

1

as in swift

having or showing the ability to respond without delay or hesitation

she's a quick wit, always ready with a pun or joke when the moment calls for one

Synonyms & Similar Words

• swift
• willing
• immediate
• ready
• rapid
• responsive
• prompt
• expeditious
• fast
• brisk
• alert
• clever
• keen
• instantaneous
• instant
• alacritous
• summary
• eager
• sharp
• smart
• speedy
• receptive
• lightning
• breathless
• snappy
• whirlwind
• rattling
• rapid-fire
• apt
• fleet
• breakneck
• fleet-footed
• quick-witted
• hit-and-run
• sharp-witted
• ready-witted

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• slow
• unresponsive
• lazy
• leisurely
• unhurried
• sluggish
• dragging
• crawling
• creeping
• tardy
• lagging
• pokey
• dilatory
• slothful
• poky
• laggard
• poking
• idle
• slowish
• dallying
• inactive
• logy
• inert
• dawdling
• loggy
• dormant
• lazyish
• dillydallying

2

as in fast

having or showing quickness of mind

a quick lad, he immediately caught on to how the machinery operated

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fast
• clever
• intelligent
• smart
• brilliant
• sharp
• keen
• exceptional
• bright
• wise
• nimble
• skilled
• alert
• educated
• quick-witted
• brainy
• cunning
• sensible
• sharp-witted
• learned
• supersmart
• resourceful
• apt
• ingenious
• insightful
• astute
• ultrasmart
• acute
• creative
• reasonable
• savvy
• prudent
• literate
• logical
• perceptive
• schooled
• informed
• knowledgeable
• scholarly
• knowing
• sagacious
• heady
• judicious
• cerebral
• trained
• hyperintelligent
• discerning
• erudite
• rational
• inventive
• sound
• perspicacious
• shrewd
• sane
• genial
• crafty
• wily
• highbrow
• sage
• well-read
• percipient
• sapient
• foxy

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• simple
• slow
• stupid
• dumb
• dense
• thick
• soft
• dull
• mindless
• fatuous
• dim
• opaque
• senseless
• obtuse
• vacuous
• dopey
• unintelligent
• brainless
• brain-dead
• boneheaded
• witless
• doltish
• thickheaded
• dorky
• dunderheaded
• weak-minded
• silly
• lamebrain
• lamebrained
• dopy
• foolish
• pinheaded
• simpleminded
• softheaded
• idiotic
• feebleminded
• moronic
• unbrilliant
• dim-witted
• imbecile
• gormless
• unsmart
• slow-witted
• knuckleheaded
• ignorant
• imbecilic
• empty-headed
• uninformed
• airheaded
• chuckleheaded
• uneducated
• unthinking
• bubbleheaded
• lunkheaded
• half-witted
• illiterate
• unwise
• birdbrained
• thick-witted
• mad
• absurd
• insane
• crazy
• untaught
• unintellectual
• idiotical
• lowbrow
• nutty
• zany
• nonintellectual
• fool
• nonsensical
• unacademic
• wacky
• preposterous
• sappy
• asinine
• balmy
• whacky
• daft
• lunatic
• cuckoo
• dippy
• half-baked
• kooky
• loony
• harebrained
• boobish
• daffy
• dotty
• screwball
• cockeyed
• looney
• crackpot
• featherheaded
• tomfool
• kookie

3

as in rapid

moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed

a quick run through the car wash, and your vehicle will look as good as new

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rapid
• fast
• brisk
• swift
• galloping
• speedy
• hasty
• hurried
• whirlwind
• rattling
• rapid-fire
• hot
• lightning
• breathless
• blistering
• snappy
• splitting
• zippy
• flying
• fleet
• accelerated
• dizzy
• rushed
• breakneck
• nippy
• prompt
• expeditious
• ready
• at speed
• fleet-footed
• strong
• vigorous
• rush
• breathtaking
• quickened
• strenuous
• high-speed
• energetic
• hastened
• ultrafast
• ultrarapid

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• slow
• unhurried
• sluggish
• deliberate
• dragging
• crawling
• leisurely
• languid
• pokey
• lingering
• plodding
• poky
• laggard
• late
• measured
• slowish
• dallying
• tardy
• dilatory
• poking
• dawdling
• dillydallying
• ultraslow

4

as in breathing

having or showing life

after the battle, there was a hurried accounting of the quick and the dead

Synonyms & Similar Words

• breathing
• alive
• live
• animate
• active
• dynamic
• lively
• living
• vigorous
• animated
• vibrant
• vivacious
• current
• going
• vital
• surviving
• thriving
• existing
• prevailing
• extant
• existent
• resurrected

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cold
• breathless
• dead
• expired
• departed
• dying
• lifeless
• deceased
• asleep
• inanimate
• fading
• defunct
• moribund
• gone
• resting
• nonliving
• absent
• finished
• ghostly
• vanished
• nonexistent
• wiped out
• terminated
• stillborn
• lost
• fallen
• ghostlike
• lapsed
• extinct
• barren
• desert
• ghosty
• zombielike
• reposing
• perished

5

as in keen

able to sense slight impressions or differences

parlayed her quick eye for beauty into ownership of a top modeling agency

Synonyms & Similar Words

• keen
• sensitive
• sharp
• acute
• accurate
• good
• delicate
• perceptive
• precise
• fine
• subtle
• clear
• sensible
• piercing
• receptive
• discerning
• hypersensitive
• supersensitive
• hair-trigger
• hyperacute
• oversensitive

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• bad
• dull
• fading
• dulled
• insensitive
• dead
• numb
• insensible
• inaccurate
• deadened
• imprecise
• dimmed
• imperceptive

6

as in gone

archaic containing unborn young within the body

a woman quick with child

Synonyms & Similar Words

• gone
• pregnant
• caught
• expecting
• big
• with young
• expectant
• gravid
• heavy
• with child
• enceinte
• prenatal
• gestational
• parturient
• childbearing
• brooding
• conceiving
• impregnated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• barren
• nonpregnant
• infertile
• delivered
• aborting
• miscarrying

quick

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adverb

as in quickly

with great speed

watch out, as the cars pass by here pretty quick

Synonyms & Similar Words

• quickly
• fast
• rapidly
• swiftly
• soon
• swift
• hot
• promptly
• immediately
• hastily
• in a hurry
• speedily
• in short order
• by leaps and bounds
• at full tilt
• briskly
• like a shot
• a mile a minute
• double-quick
• at full throttle
• like wildfire
• presto
• like gangbusters
• fleetly
• lickety-split
• apace
• chop-chop
• hell-for-leather
• abruptly
• pronto
• readily
• full tilt
• posthaste
• snappily
• impulsively
• recklessly
• rashly
• vigorously
• suddenly
• impetuously
• energetically

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• slowly
• slow
• sluggishly
• deliberately
• leisurely
• lingeringly
• belatedly
• ploddingly
• laggardly
• tardily
• delinquently

quick

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noun (1)

as in heart

the seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotions

that nasty comment cut me to the quick

Synonyms & Similar Words

• heart
• soul
• mind
• bone(s)
• gut
• breast
• core
• blood
• belly
• bosom
• inside
• inner space
• conscience
• heartstrings

quickness

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noun (2)

as in speed

a high rate of movement or performance

his agility and overall quickness made him the football coach's top choice for receiver

Synonyms & Similar Words

• speed
• velocity
• hurry
• swiftness
• rapidity
• rate
• celerity
• pace
• fleetness
• speediness
• haste
• rapidness
• acceleration
• fastness
• gait
• tempo
• clip
• promptness
• alacrity
• hustle
• promptitude
• precipitation
• rush
• hastiness
• dispatch
• expedition
• drive
• precipitousness
• expeditiousness
• warp speed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• slowness
• sluggishness
• lethargy
• reluctance
• languor
• torpidity
• torpor
• deliberation
• deliberateness
• languidness
• leisureliness
• procrastination
• lateness
• dilatoriness
• pokiness