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quick

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of quick

1 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 of quick

alacritous, alert, expeditious, prompt, ready, willing

Words Related to quick

receptive, responsive

immediate, instant, instantaneous, summary

breakneck, breathless, brisk, fast, fleet, fleet-footed, hit-and-run, lightning, rapid, rapid-fire, rattling, snappy, speedy, swift, whirlwind

eager, keen, sharp

apt, clever, quick-witted, ready-witted, sharp-witted, smart

Near Antonyms of quick

crawling, creeping, dallying, dawdling, dilatory, dillydallying, dragging, laggard, lagging, lazy, lazyish, leisurely, logy (also loggy), poking, poky (or pokey), slothful, slow, slowish, sluggish, tardy, unhurried

dormant, idle, inactive, inert

2 having or showing quickness of mind

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

Synonyms of quick

alert, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, exceptional, fast, hyperintelligent, intelligent, keen, nimble, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, supersmart, ultrasmart

Words Related to quick

apt, ingenious, resourceful

acute, astute, discerning, heady, insightful, knowing, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sapient, savvy, wise

cerebral, erudite, genial, highbrow, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly, well-read

educated, informed, schooled, skilled, trained

creative, inventive, judicious, prudent, sage, sane, sapient, sensible, sound, wise

crafty, cunning, foxy, shrewd, wily

logical, rational, reasonable

Near Antonyms of quick

feebleminded, simpleminded

boobish, foolish, half-baked, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic, silly

ignorant, illiterate, lowbrow, nonintellectual, unacademic, uneducated, uninformed, unintellectual, untaught, unthinking

absurd, asinine, balmy, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, featherheaded, fool, half-baked, harebrained, insane, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, tomfool, unwise, wacky (also whacky), zany

Antonyms of quick

airheaded, birdbrained, boneheaded, brain-dead, brainless, bubbleheaded, chuckleheaded, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, gormless [chiefly British], half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), lunkheaded, mindless, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, stupid, thick, thickheaded, thick-witted, unbrilliant, unintelligent, unsmart, vacuous, weak-minded, witless

3 moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed

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

Synonyms of quick

blistering, breakneck, breathless, brisk, dizzy, fast, fleet, fleet-footed, flying, galloping, hasty, hot, lightning, nippy, rapid, rapid-fire, rattling, snappy, speedy, splitting, swift, whirlwind, zippy

Words Related to quick

expeditious, prompt, ready

accelerated, hastened, hurried, quickened, rushed

energetic, strenuous, strong, vigorous

ultrafast, ultrarapid

Phrases Synonymous with quick

at speed [chiefly British]

Near Antonyms of quick

crawling, dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, dragging, laggard, languid, lingering, plodding, poking, poky (or pokey), slowish, sluggish, unhurried

deliberate, leisurely, measured

dilatory, late, tardy

Antonyms of quick

4 having or showing life

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

Synonyms of quick

alive, animate, breathing, live, living

Words Related to quick

active, animated, dynamic, lively, thriving, vibrant, vigorous, vital, vivacious

current, existent, existing, extant, going, prevailing, surviving

Near Antonyms of quick

dying, fading, moribund

reposing, resting

ghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, zombielike

absent, extinct, fallen, finished, gone, lapsed, lost, nonexistent, perished, terminated, vanished, wiped out

Antonyms of quick

asleep, breathless, cold, dead, deceased, defunct, departed, expired, inanimate, lifeless, nonliving

5 able to sense slight impressions or differences

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

Synonyms of quick

acute, delicate, fine, keen, perceptive, sensitive, sharp

Words Related to quick

accurate, clear, discerning, good, piercing, precise, receptive, sensible, subtle

hair-trigger, hyperacute, hypersensitive, oversensitive, supersensitive

Near Antonyms of quick

bad, deadened, dimmed, dull, dulled, fading

dead, imperceptive, insensible, insensitive, numb

imprecise, inaccurate

6 archaic containing unborn young within the body

a woman quick with child

Synonyms of quick

big, caught, enceinte, expectant, expecting, gone, gravid, heavy, pregnant

Words Related to quick

parturient, prenatal

childbearing, gestational

conceiving, impregnated

Phrases Synonymous with quick

with child, with young

Near Antonyms of quick

barren, infertile

aborting, miscarrying

Antonyms of quick

Synonym Discussion of quick

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 power.

- quick reflexes
- a keen quick mind

prompt is more likely to connote training and discipline that fits one for instant response.

- prompt emergency medical care

ready suggests facility or fluency in response.

- backed by a pair of ready assistants

apt stresses the possession of qualities (such as intelligence, a particular talent, or a strong bent) that makes quick effective response possible.

- an apt student
- her answer was apt and to the point

synonyms see in addition fast

quick

adverb

Synonyms and Antonyms of quick

with great speed

watch out, as the cars pass by here pretty quick

Synonyms of quick

apace, briskly, chop-chop, double-quick, fast, fleetly, full tilt, hastily, hell-for-leather, hot, lickety-split, posthaste, presto, pronto, quickly, rapidly, snappily, soon, speedily, swift, swiftly

Words Related to quick

immediately, promptly, readily

impetuously, impulsively, rashly, recklessly

abruptly, suddenly

energetically, vigorously

Phrases Synonymous with quick

a mile a minute, at full throttle, at full tilt, by leaps and bounds, in a hurry, in short order, like a shot, like gangbusters, like wildfire

Near Antonyms of quick

laggardly, lingeringly, ploddingly, sluggishly

deliberately, leisurely

belatedly, delinquently, tardily

Antonyms of quick

quick

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of quick

the seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotions

that nasty comment cut me to the quick

Synonyms of quick

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

Words Related to quick

conscience, mind

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