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quickadjective having or showing the ability to respond without delay or hesitationshe's a quick wit, always ready with a pun or joke when the moment calls for one alacritous, alert, expeditious, prompt, ready, willing receptive, responsiveimmediate, instant, instantaneous, summarybreakneck, breathless, brisk, fast, fleet, fleet-footed, hit-and-run, lightning, rapid, rapid-fire, rattling, snappy, speedy, swift, whirlwindeager, keen, sharpapt, clever, quick-witted, ready-witted, sharp-witted, smart unresponsivecrawling, creeping, dallying, dawdling, dilatory, dillydallying, dragging, laggard, lagging, lazy, lazyish, leisurely, logy(also loggy), poking, poky(or pokey), slothful, slow, slowish, sluggish, tardy, unhurrieddormant, idle, inactive, inert having or showing quickness of minda quick lad, he immediately caught on to how the machinery operated alert, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, exceptional, fast, hyperintelligent, intelligent, keen, nimble, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, supersmart, ultrasmart apt, ingenious, resourcefulacute, astute, discerning, heady, insightful, knowing, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sapient, savvy, wisecerebral, erudite, genial, highbrow, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly, well-readeducated, informed, schooled, skilled, trainedcreative, inventive, judicious, prudent, sage, sane, sapient, sensible, sound, wisecrafty, cunning, foxy, shrewd, wilylogical, rational, reasonable airheaded, birdbrained, boneheaded, brain-dead, brainless, bubbleheaded, chuckleheaded, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey(also dopy), dorky(slang), dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, gormless(chiefly British), half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain(or lamebrained), lunkheaded, mindless, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, stupid, thick, thickheaded, thick-witted, unbrilliant, unintelligent, unsmart, vacuous, weak-minded, witless feebleminded, simplemindedboobish, foolish, half-baked, idiotic(also idiotical), imbecile(or imbecilic), moronic, sillyignorant, illiterate, lowbrow, nonintellectual, unacademic, uneducated, uninformed, unintellectual, untaught, unthinkingabsurd, asinine, balmy, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, featherheaded, fool, half-baked, harebrained, insane, kooky(also kookie), loony(also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, tomfool, unwise, wacky(also whacky), zany moving, proceeding, or acting with great speeda quick run through the car wash, and your vehicle will look as good as new blistering, breakneck, breathless, brisk, dizzy, fast, fleet, fleet-footed, flying, galloping, hasty, hot, lightning, nippy, rapid, rapid-fire, rattling, snappy, speedy, splitting, swift, whirlwind, zippy expeditious, prompt, readyaccelerated, hastened, hurried, quickened, rushedbreathtakingenergetic, strenuous, strong, vigoroushigh-speedrushultrafast, ultrarapid at speed(chiefly British) slow crawling, dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, dragging, laggard, languid, lingering, plodding, poking, poky(or pokey), slowish, sluggish, unhurrieddeliberate, leisurely, measureddilatory, late, tardyultraslow having or showing lifeafter the battle, there was a hurried accounting of the quick and the dead alive, animate, breathing, live, living active, animated, dynamic, lively, thriving, vibrant, vigorous, vital, vivaciouscurrent, existent, existing, extant, going, prevailing, survivingresurrected asleep, breathless, cold, dead, deceased, defunct, departed, expired, inanimate, lifeless, nonliving dying, fading, moribundstillbornreposing, restingghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, zombielikeabsent, extinct, fallen, finished, gone, lapsed, lost, nonexistent, perished, terminated, vanished, wiped outbarren, desert able to sense slight impressions or differencesparlayed her quick eye for beauty into ownership of a top modeling agency acute, delicate, fine, keen, perceptive, sensitive, sharp accurate, clear, discerning, good, piercing, precise, receptive, sensible, subtlehair-trigger, hyperacute, hypersensitive, oversensitive, supersensitive bad, deadened, dimmed, dull, dulled, fadingdead, imperceptive, insensible, insensitive, numbimprecise, inaccurate archaiccontaining unborn young within the bodya woman quick with child big, caught, enceinte, expectant, expecting, gone, gravid, heavy, pregnant parturient, prenatalchildbearing, gestationalbroodingconceiving, impregnated with child, with young nonpregnant barren, infertileaborting, miscarryingdelivered quickadverbwith great speedwatch out, as the cars pass by here pretty quick apace, briskly, chop-chop, double-quick, fast, fleetly, full tilt, hastily, hell-for-leather, hot, lickety-split, posthaste, presto, pronto, quickly, rapidly, snappily, soon, speedily, swift, swiftly immediately, promptly, readilyimpetuously, impulsively, rashly, recklesslyabruptly, suddenlyenergetically, vigorously a mile a minute, at full throttle, at full tilt, by leaps and bounds, in a hurry, in short order, like a shot, like gangbusters, like wildfire slow, slowly laggardly, lingeringly, ploddingly, sluggishlydeliberately, leisurelybelatedly, delinquently, tardily quicknounthe seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotionsthat nasty comment cut me to the quick belly, blood, bone(s), bosom, breast, core, gut, heart, heartstrings, inner space, inside, soul conscience, mind adj.quick, prompt, ready, apt mean able to respond without delay or hesitation or indicative of such ability.quick stresses instancy of response and is likely to connote native rather than acquired power.quick reflexes a keen quick mind prompt is more likely to connote training and discipline that fits one for instant response.prompt emergency medical care ready suggests facility or fluency in response.backed by a pair of ready assistants apt stresses the possession of qualities (such as intelligence, a particular talent, or a strong bent) that makes quick effective response possible.an apt student her answer was apt and to the point Cf. fast. before the 12th century |