quick
/kwɪk/ adjective A2- Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast. · I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.· He's a quick runner.
- Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly. · That was a quick meal.
- Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent. · You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.
- Mentally agile, alert, perceptive. · My father is old but he still has a quick wit.
- Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered. · She has a very quick temper.· He is wont to be rather quick of temper when tired.
- productive; not "dead" or barren
- Not cryptic.
- Being a distinctively sensitive kind of glaciomarine clay that may behave like a watery fluid under stress.
Comparative quicker · Superlative quickest
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Douglas’s face lit with a quick smile.
Commend me to a sailor for going the quick way to work!”
“Quick, Dorothy!” she screamed.
As quick as lightning the man’s head shot forward and his neck stretched out until the top of the head, where it was flat, struck the Scarecrow in the middle and sent him tumbling, over and over, down the hill.
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