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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, quick-witted, ready-witted, sharp-witted, smart
Near Antonyms of quick

unresponsive

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

breathtaking

energetic, strenuous, strong, vigorous

high-speed

rush

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

ultraslow
Antonyms of quick

slow

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

resurrected
Near Antonyms of quick

dying, fading, moribund

stillborn

reposing, resting

ghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, zombielike

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

barren, desert
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

brooding

conceiving, impregnated
Phrases Synonymous with quick

with child, with young
Near Antonyms of quick

barren, infertile

aborting, miscarrying

delivered
Antonyms of quick

nonpregnant

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

slow, slowly

quick

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of quick

the seat of oneʼs 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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