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QUICK STUDY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quick study mean? 

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

1. someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easilyplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


QUICK STUDY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

quick study; sponge

Context example:

she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge

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

assimilator; learner; scholar (someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs)


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