Post by t-bob on Jul 22, 2019 3:52:42 GMT -5
QUICKNESS
—adjective, quick·er, quick·est.
done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate:
a quick response.
that is over or completed within a short interval of time:
a quick shower.
moving, or able to move, with speed:
a quick fox; a quick train.
swift or rapid, as motion:
a quick flick of the wrist.
easily provoked or excited; hasty:
a quick temper.
keenly responsive; lively; acute:
a quick wit.
acting with swiftness or rapidity:
a quick worker.
prompt or swift to do something:
quick to respond.
prompt to perceive; sensitive:
a quick eye.
prompt to understand, learn, etc.; of ready intelligence:
a quick student.
(of a bend or curve) sharp:
a quick bend in the road.
consisting of living plants:
a quick pot of flowers.
brisk, as fire, flames, heat, etc.
Archaic.
endowed with life.
having a high degree of vigor, energy, or activity.
—noun
living persons:
the quick and the dead.
the tender, sensitive flesh of the living body, especially that under the nails:
nails bitten down to the quick.
the vital or most important part.
Chiefly British.
a line of shrubs or plants, especially of hawthorn, forming a hedge.
a single shrub or plant in such a hedge.
—adverb, quick·er, quick·est.
quickly.
—Idioms
cut to the quick,to injure deeply; hurt the feelings of:
Their callous treatment cut her to the quick
—adjective, quick·er, quick·est.
done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate:
a quick response.
that is over or completed within a short interval of time:
a quick shower.
moving, or able to move, with speed:
a quick fox; a quick train.
swift or rapid, as motion:
a quick flick of the wrist.
easily provoked or excited; hasty:
a quick temper.
keenly responsive; lively; acute:
a quick wit.
acting with swiftness or rapidity:
a quick worker.
prompt or swift to do something:
quick to respond.
prompt to perceive; sensitive:
a quick eye.
prompt to understand, learn, etc.; of ready intelligence:
a quick student.
(of a bend or curve) sharp:
a quick bend in the road.
consisting of living plants:
a quick pot of flowers.
brisk, as fire, flames, heat, etc.
Archaic.
endowed with life.
having a high degree of vigor, energy, or activity.
—noun
living persons:
the quick and the dead.
the tender, sensitive flesh of the living body, especially that under the nails:
nails bitten down to the quick.
the vital or most important part.
Chiefly British.
a line of shrubs or plants, especially of hawthorn, forming a hedge.
a single shrub or plant in such a hedge.
—adverb, quick·er, quick·est.
quickly.
—Idioms
cut to the quick,to injure deeply; hurt the feelings of:
Their callous treatment cut her to the quick
