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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

QUICK, v.i.
To stir; to move. [Not in use.]
QUICK, a. [If q is a dialectical prefix, as I suppose, this word coincides with the L. vigeo, vegeo, and vig, veg, radical, coincide with wag.]
1. Primarily, alive; living; opposed to dead or unanimated; as quick flesh. Leviticus 13.
The Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead. 2 Timothy 4.
[In this sense, the word is obsolete, except in some compounds or in particular phrases.]
2. Swift; hasty; done with celerity; as quick dispatch.
3. Speedy; done or occurring in a short time; as a quick return of profits.
Oft he to her his charge of quick return repeated.
4. Active; brisk; nimble; prompt ready. He is remarkably quick in his motions. He is a man of quick parts.
5. Moving with rapidity or celerity; as quick time in music.
Quick with child, pregnant with a living child.
QUICK, adv.
1. Nimbly; with celerity; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; be quick.
If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed.
2. Soon; in a short time; without delay. Go, and return quick.
QUICK, n.
1. A living animal. Obs.
2. The living flesh; sensible parts; as penetrating to the quick; stung to the quick; cut to the quick.
3. Living shrubs or trees; as a ditch or bank set with quick.
QUICK, v.t. To revive; to make alive. Obs.
QUICK, v.i. To become alive. Obs.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: accomplished rapidly and without delay; "was quick to make friends"; "his quick reaction prevented an accident"; "hoped for a speedy resolution of the problem"; "a speedy recovery"; "he has a right to a speedy trial" [syn: quick, speedy]
2: hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit"; "took a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit" [syn: flying, quick, fast]
3: moving quickly and lightly; "sleek and agile as a gymnast"; "as nimble as a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of foot"; "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it" [syn: agile, nimble, quick, spry]
4: apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity; "a quick mind"; "a ready wit" [syn: quick, ready]
5: performed with little or no delay; "an immediate reply to my letter"; "a prompt reply"; "was quick to respond"; "a straightaway denial" [syn: immediate, prompt, quick, straightaway]
6: easily aroused or excited; "a quick temper"; "a warm temper" [syn: quick, warm] n
1: any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail) adv
1: with little or no delay; "the rescue squad arrived promptly"; "come here, quick!" [syn: promptly, quickly, quick]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: Middle English quik, from Old English cwic; akin to Old Norse kvikr living, Latin vivus living, vivere to live, Greek bios, z?? life Date: before 12th century 1. not dead ; living, alive 2. acting or capable of acting with speed: as a. (1) fast in understanding, thinking, or learning ; mentally agile <a quick wit> <quick thinking> (2) reacting to stimuli with speed and keen sensitivity (3) aroused immediately and intensely <quick tempers> b. (1) fast in development or occurrence <a quick succession of events> (2) done or taking place with rapidity <gave them a quick look> c. marked by speed, readiness, or promptness of physical movement <walked with quick steps> d. inclined to hastiness (as in action or response) <quick to criticize> e. capable of being easily and speedily prepared <a quick and tasty dinner> 3. a. archaic not stagnant ; running, flowing b. moving, shifting <quick mud> 4. archaic fiery, glowing 5. obsolete a. pungent b. caustic 6. archaic pregnant 7. having a sharp angle <a quick turn in the road> • quickly adverb • quickness noun Synonyms: 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 (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>. Synonym: see in addition fast. II. noun Date: before 12th century 1. quick plural living beings 2. [probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse kvika sensitive flesh, from kvikr living] a. a painfully sensitive spot or area of flesh (as that underlying a fingernail or toenail) b. the inmost sensibilities <hurt to the quick by the remark> c. the very center of something ; heart 3. archaic life 11 III. adverb Date: 14th century in a quick manner

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj., adv., & n. --adj. 1 taking only a short time (a quick worker). 2 arriving after a short time, prompt (quick action; quick results). 3 with only a short interval (in quick succession). 4 lively, intelligent. 5 acute, alert (has a quick ear). 6 (of a temper) easily roused. 7 archaic living, alive (the quick and the dead). --adv. 1 quickly, at a rapid rate. 2 (as int.) come, go, etc., quickly. --n. 1 the soft flesh below the nails, or the skin, or a sore. 2 the seat of feeling or emotion (cut to the quick). Phrases and idioms: be quick act quickly. quick-fire 1 (of repartee etc.) rapid. 2 firing shots in quick succession. quick-freeze 1 freeze (food) rapidly so as to preserve its natural qualities. 2 this process. quick march Mil. 1 a march in quick time. 2 the command to begin this. quick one colloq. a drink taken quickly. quick step Mil. a step used in quick time (cf. QUICKSTEP). quick time Mil. marching at about 120 paces per minute. quick trick Bridge 1 a trick in the first two rounds of a suit. 2 the card that should win this. quick with child archaic at a stage of pregnancy when movements of the foetus have been felt. Derivatives: quickly adv. quickness n. Etymology: OE cwic(u) alive f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Quick Quick, a. [Compar. Quicker; superl. Quickest.] [As. cwic, cwicu, cwucu, cucu, living; akin to OS. quik, D. kwik, OHG. quec, chec, G. keck bold, lively, Icel. kvikr living, Goth. qius, Lith. q[=y]vas, Russ. zhivoi, L. vivus living, vivere to live, Gr. bi`os life, Skr. j[=i]va living, j[=i]v to live. Cf. Biography, Vivid, Quitch grass, Whitlow.] 1. Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate. Not fully quyke, ne fully dead they were. --Chaucer. The Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom. --2 Tim. iv. 1. Man is no star, but a quick coal Of mortal fire. -- Herbert. Note: In this sense the word is nearly obsolete, except in some compounds, or in particular phrases. 2. Characterized by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready. `` A quick wit.'' --Shak. 3. Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick. Oft he her his charge of quick return Repeated. --Milton. 4. Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper. The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended. -- Latimer. 5. Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen. The air is quick there, And it pierces and sharpens the stomach. -- Shak. 6. Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a quick ear. ``To have an open ear, a quick eye.'' --Shak. They say that women are so quick. --Tennyson. 7. Pregnant; with child. --Shak. Quick grass. (Bot.) See Quitch grass. Quick match. See under Match. Quick vein (Mining), a vein of ore which is productive, not barren. Quick vinegar, vinegar made by allowing a weak solution of alcohol to trickle slowly over shavings or other porous material. Quick water, quicksilver water. Quick with child, pregnant with a living child. Syn: Speedy; expeditious; swift; rapid; hasty; prompt; ready; active; brisk; nimble; fleet; alert; agile; lively; sprightly.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Quick Quick, adv. In a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; get back quick. If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed. -- Locke.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Quick Quick, n. 1. That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge. The works . . . are curiously hedged with quick. --Evelyn. 2. The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to taunt one to the quick; -- used figuratively. This test nippeth, . . . this toucheth the quick. --Latimer. How feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference ! --Fuller. 3. (Bot.) Quitch grass. --Tennyson.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Quick Quick, v. t. & i. [See Quicken.] To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(quicker, quickest) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. 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 ADJ • quickly Cussane worked quickly and methodically... ? slowly ADV: ADV with v • quickness ...the natural quickness of his mind. 2. 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... ADV: ADV after v 3. 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... ADJ • quickly You can become fitter quite quickly and easily. ADV: ADV with v 4. Quick means happening without delay or with very little delay. These investors feel the need to make quick profits. = speedy ADJ: usu ADJ n • quickly It quickly became the most popular men's fragrance in the world... ADV: ADV with v 5. Quick is sometimes used to mean 'with very little delay'. (INFORMAL) I got away as quick as I could... ADV: ADV after v 6. 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... ADJ: v-link ADJ, usu ADJ to-inf 7. If someone has a quick temper, they are easily made angry. ADJ: ADJ n 8. 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. PHRASE: V inflects 9. quick as a flash: see flash quick off the mark: see mark quick on the uptake: see uptake

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. 1. Active, nimble, agile, animated, sprightly, lively, smart, alert, brisk, prompt, ready. 2. Rapid, swift, speedy, fleet, fast, hasty, expeditious, hurried, flying. 3. Dexterous, adroit, skilful, expert, apt. 4. Acute, clever, sharp, shrewd, keen, intelligent, sagacious, discerning, sensitive. 5. Excitable, restless, passionate. 6. Hasty, precipitate, sharp, unceremonious, choleric, passionate, testy, irritable, touchy, waspish, petulant, irascible, peppery, snappish. 7. Alive, living, live, animate. 8. Pregnant, with child. 9. Fresh, sharp, bracing. II. ad. See quickly. III. n. Quickset, hawthorn.

Moby Thesaurus

Daedalian, able, aboveground, abrupt, acquiescent, acute, adept, adroit, agile, agog, agreeable, alacritous, alert, alive, alive and kicking, all agog, amain, amenable, among the living, animate, animated, anxious, apace, apt, ardent, artistic, astute, at flank speed, attentive, authoritative, avid, awake, bosom, brainy, bravura, breakneck, breast, breathing, breathless, brief, bright, brilliant, brisk, bursting to, canny, capable, capable of life, center of life, clean, clever, combustible, cometary, competent, compliant, conscious, consenting, content, cooperative, coordinated, core, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cursory, cute, daedal, dashing, decisive, deft, desirous, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, discerning, dispatchful, disposed, docile, double-quick, eager, eagle-winged, educable, effective, effectual, electrifying, endowed with life, energetic, enlivened, enthusiastic, esoteric reality, excellent, excitable, existent, expeditious, expeditiously, expert, explosive, exposed nerve, express, facile, fain, fancy, fast, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, festinate, feverish, fiery, flashing, flat-out, fleet, flickering, flying, formable, forward, full of life, furious, galloping, game, gifted, good, goodish, graceful, hair-trigger, hand over fist, hand over hand, handy, hastily, hasty, headlong, heart, heart of hearts, hell for leather, hell-bent, hell-bent for election, hep, hot, hot-tempered, hotheaded, hurried, hustling, immediate, impatient, impetuous, impressionable, impulsive, in double time, in double-quick time, in high, in high gear, in seven-league boots, in the flesh, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, ingenious, inmost heart, inmost soul, inner man, inner nature, inside, inspirited, instant, instantaneous, instinct with life, instructable, intelligent, irascible, irritable, keen, keen-witted, knowing, last-minute, lickety-cut, lickety-split, light of heel, light-footed, live, lively, living, long-lived, magisterial, malleable, masterful, masterly, mercurial, meteoric, minded, moldable, motivated, neat, nerve center, nerve ending, nerve-shattering, nimble, nimble-footed, nimble-witted, no dumbbell, no mean, not born yesterday, on the, on the alert, on the ball, on the double, on the job, on the spot, overhasty, panting, passing, passionate, peppery, perceptive, perfunctory, perspicacious, petulant, pith, plastic, pliable, pliant, politic, post, posthaste, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, predisposed, professional, proficient, prompt, promptly, prone, punctual, qui vive, quick as lightning, quick as thought, quick-tempered, quick-thinking, quick-witted, quickly, quite some, rapid, rapidly, raring to, rash, raw, raw nerve, ready, ready and willing, receptive, reckless, resourceful, responsive, ripe for instruction, root, running, schoolable, scintillating, secret heart, sharp, sharp-witted, shocking, short, short and sweet, short-tempered, short-term, short-termed, shrewd, skillful, slap-bang, slapdash, sleepless, slick, smart, snap, snappily, snappy, soft spot, some, sore point, sore spot, soul, spanking, speedily, speedy, spirit, spirited, spry, spunky, startling, statesmanlike, steel-trap, stylish, sudden, summary, superficial, surprising, susceptible, swift, swiftly, tactful, talented, teachable, tenacious of life, tender spot, testy, the compleat, the complete, the quick, thirsty for knowledge, timely, touchy, tractable, trainable, trippingly, true being, true inwardness, unanticipated, unblinking, under forced draft, unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unnodding, unpredicted, unsleeping, unwinking, urgent, very much alive, viable, vigorous, virtuoso, vital, vital principle, vitals, vivacious, vivid, vivified, volcanic, wakeful, well-disposed, well-done, well-inclined, whip and spur, wide-awake, willed, willing, willinghearted, winged, with all haste, with giant strides, with rapid strides, with speed, workmanlike, zealous, zestful, zoetic