- 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.
- 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.
- to injure deeply; hurt the feelings of: Their callous treatment cut her to the quick.
- (of an action, movement, etc) performed or occurring during a comparatively short time
- lasting a comparatively short time; brief
- accomplishing something in a time that is shorter than normal
- characterized by rapidity of movement; swift or fast
- immediate or prompt
- eager or ready to perform (an action)
- responsive to stimulation; perceptive or alert; lively
- eager or enthusiastic for learning
- easily excited or aroused
- skilfully swift or nimble in one's movements or actions; deft
- archaic
- alive; living
- living people (esp in the phrase the quick and the dead)
- lively or eager
- (of a fire) burning briskly
- composed of living plants
- (of sand) lacking firmness through being wet
- pregnant, esp being in an advanced state of pregnancy, when the movements of the fetus can be felt
- any area of living flesh that is highly sensitive to pain or touch, esp that under a toenail or fingernail or around a healing wound
- the vital or most important part (of a thing)
- short for quickset (def. 1)
- to hurt someone's feelings deeply; offend gravely
- in a rapid or speedy manner; swiftly
- soon
- a command requiring the hearer to perform an action immediately or in as short a time as possible
