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quick
Synonyms and Antonyms of quick
- she's a quick wit, always ready with a pun or joke when the moment calls for one
- a quick lad, he immediately caught on to how the machinery operated
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
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
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
- a quick run through the car wash, and your vehicle will look as good as new
at speed [chiefly British]
- after the battle, there was a hurried accounting of the quick and the dead
- parlayed her quick eye for beauty into ownership of a top modeling agency
- a woman quick with child
with child, with young
Synonym Discussion of quick
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- quick reflexes
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- a keen quick mind
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- prompt emergency medical care
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- backed by a pair of ready assistants
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- an apt student
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- her answer was apt and to the point
synonyms see in addition fast
quick
Synonyms and Antonyms of quick
- watch out, as the cars pass by here pretty 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
quick
Synonyms and Antonyms of quick
- that nasty comment cut me to the quick
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