QUICK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quick mean? 

• QUICK (noun)
  The noun QUICK has 1 sense:

1. any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)

  Familiarity information: QUICK used as a noun is very rare.

• QUICK (adjective)
  The adjective QUICK has 6 senses:

1. accomplished rapidly and without delay

2. hurried and brief

3. moving quickly and lightly

4. apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity

5. performed with little or no delay

6. easily aroused or excited

  Familiarity information: QUICK used as an adjective is common.

• QUICK (adverb)
  The adverb QUICK has 1 sense:

1. with little or no delay

  Familiarity information: QUICK used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUICK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("quick" is a kind of...):

area; region (a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve)

• QUICK (adjective)

Comparative: quicker   
Superlative: quickest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Accomplished rapidly and without delay

Synonyms:

quick; speedy

Context example:

he has a right to a speedy trial

Similar:

fast (acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly)

Derivation:

quickness (a rate that is rapid)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hurried and brief

Synonyms:

fast; flying; quick

Context example:

a fast visit

Similar:

hurried (moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste)

Derivation:

quickness (a rate that is rapid)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Moving quickly and lightly

Synonyms:

agile; nimble; quick; spry

Context example:

the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it

Similar:

active (characterized by energetic activity)

Derivation:

quickness (a rate that is rapid)

quickness (skillful performance or ability without difficulty)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity

Synonyms:

quick; ready

Context example:

a ready wit

Similar:

intelligent (having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree)

Derivation:

quickness (intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Performed with little or no delay

Synonyms:

immediate; prompt; quick; straightaway

Context example:

a straightaway denial

Similar:

fast (acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly)

Derivation:

quickness (a rate that is rapid)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Easily aroused or excited

Synonyms:

quick; warm

Context example:

a warm temper

Similar:

excitable (easily excited)

Derivation:

quickness (a rate that is rapid)

• QUICK (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With little or no delay

Synonyms:

promptly; quick; quickly

Context example:

come here, quick!

 Context examples 

For now more than ever has all work to be done quick and sharp, and in deadly earnest.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Couldn’t make yourself scarce too quick, with several gentlemen you may have heard of looking for you.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The man sprang for his throat, but Buck was too quick for him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“I am afraid that my colleague has been a little quick in forming his conclusions,” he said.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I get up quick and roll blankets so snow does not get inside.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He looked at Mr. Micawber attentively, with his whole face breathing short and quick in every feature.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"He can gnaw through leather as clean as a knife an' jes' about half as quick. They all'll be here in the mornin' hunkydory."

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"How beautiful that is!" said Laurie softly, for he was quick to see and feel beauty of any kind.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He put out his hand with a quick gesture, but not seeing where I stood, he did not touch me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We made our way back—the whole gorge was not more than a quarter of a mile deep—and then suddenly the quick eyes of Lord John fell upon what we were seeking.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)