quick
♦♦♦ quick /kw'ɪk/ (quicker quickest)
1 [ADJ]
Someone or something that is quick moves or does things with great speed.
You'll have to be quick. The flight leaves in about three hours...
I think I'm a reasonably quick learner...
≠ slow
● quickly [ADV] ADV with v
Cussane worked quickly and methodically...
≠ slowly
● quickness [N-UNCOUNT]
...the natural quickness of his mind.
2 [ADV] ADV after v
Quicker is sometimes used to mean `at a greater speed', and quickest to mean `at the greatest speed'. Quick is sometimes used to mean `with great speed'. Some people consider this to be non-standard. (INFORMAL)
Warm the sugar slightly first to make it dissolve quicker...
3 [ADJ]
Something that is quick takes or lasts only a short time.
He took one last quick look about the room...
Although this recipe looks long, it is actually very quick to prepare...
● quickly [ADV] ADV with v
You can become fitter quite quickly and easily.
4 [ADJ] usu ADJ n
Quick means happening without delay or with very little delay.
These investors feel the need to make quick profits.
= speedy
● quickly [ADV] ADV with v
It quickly became the most popular men's fragrance in the world...
5 [ADV] ADV after v
Quick is sometimes used to mean `with very little delay'. (INFORMAL)
I got away as quick as I could...
6 [ADJ] v-link ADJ, usu ADJ to-inf
If you are quick to do something, you do not hesitate to do it.
Mark says the ideas are Katie's own, and is quick to praise her talent...
7 [ADJ] ADJ n
If someone has a quick temper, they are easily made angry.
8 [PHRASE] V inflects
If something cuts you to the quick, it makes you feel very upset. (LITERARY)
I once heard her weeping in her bedroom, which cut me to the quick.
9
quick as a flash: see flash
quick off the mark: see mark
quick on the uptake: see uptakequick fix (quick fixes)
[N-COUNT] oft with neg
If you refer to a quick fix to a problem, you mean a way of solving a problem that is easy but temporary or inadequate.
...tax measures enacted as a quick fix.
1 [ADJ]
Someone or something that is quick moves or does things with great speed.
You'll have to be quick. The flight leaves in about three hours...
I think I'm a reasonably quick learner...
≠ slow
● quickly [ADV] ADV with v
Cussane worked quickly and methodically...
≠ slowly
● quickness [N-UNCOUNT]
...the natural quickness of his mind.
2 [ADV] ADV after v
Quicker is sometimes used to mean `at a greater speed', and quickest to mean `at the greatest speed'. Quick is sometimes used to mean `with great speed'. Some people consider this to be non-standard. (INFORMAL)
Warm the sugar slightly first to make it dissolve quicker...
3 [ADJ]
Something that is quick takes or lasts only a short time.
He took one last quick look about the room...
Although this recipe looks long, it is actually very quick to prepare...
● quickly [ADV] ADV with v
You can become fitter quite quickly and easily.
4 [ADJ] usu ADJ n
Quick means happening without delay or with very little delay.
These investors feel the need to make quick profits.
= speedy
● quickly [ADV] ADV with v
It quickly became the most popular men's fragrance in the world...
5 [ADV] ADV after v
Quick is sometimes used to mean `with very little delay'. (INFORMAL)
I got away as quick as I could...
6 [ADJ] v-link ADJ, usu ADJ to-inf
If you are quick to do something, you do not hesitate to do it.
Mark says the ideas are Katie's own, and is quick to praise her talent...
7 [ADJ] ADJ n
If someone has a quick temper, they are easily made angry.
8 [PHRASE] V inflects
If something cuts you to the quick, it makes you feel very upset. (LITERARY)
I once heard her weeping in her bedroom, which cut me to the quick.
9
quick as a flash: see flash
quick off the mark: see mark
quick on the uptake: see uptakequick fix (quick fixes)
[N-COUNT] oft with neg
If you refer to a quick fix to a problem, you mean a way of solving a problem that is easy but temporary or inadequate.
...tax measures enacted as a quick fix.