quick

The word “quick” has 1 syllable: quick

It's pronounced as /kwɪk/

What is synonym and antonym for quick?

In the thesaurus, “quick” has 265 synonyms and 199 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for quick along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for quick

ASAP
a mile a minute
a move on
able
abrupt
abruptly
accelerated
accurate
active
acute
adept
adroit
agile
alacritous
alert
alive
all there
animate
animated
apace
apt
astute
at full throttle
at full tilt
at speed
belly
big
blistering
blood
bosom
brainy
breakneck
breast
breathing
breathless
breathtaking
brief
bright
brilliant
brisk
briskly
brooding
by leaps and bounds
canny
capable
caught
cerebral
childbearing
chop-chop
clear
clever
competent
conceiving
conscience
core
crafty
creative
cunning
current
cursory
curt
deft
delicate
dexterous
discerning
dizzy
double-quick
double-time
dynamic
eager
educated
effective
effectual
enceinte
energetic
energetically
erudite
exceptional
existent
existing
expectant
expecting
expeditious
expeditive
express
extant
fast
fine
fleet
fleet-footed
fleetly
flying
foxy
full tilt
galloping
genial
gestational
going
gone
good
gravid
gut
hair-trigger
harefooted
hastened
hastily
hasty
headlong
heady
heart
heartstrings
heavy
hell-for-leather
high-speed
highbrow
hit-and-run
hot
hurried
hyperacute
hyperintelligent
hypersensitive
immediate
immediately
impatient
impetuous
impetuously
impregnated
impulsively
in a hurry
in short order
informed
ingenious
inner space
inside
insightful
instant
instantaneous
intelligent
inventive
judicious
keen
knowing
knowledgeable
learned
lickety-split
lightning
like a shot
like gangbusters
like wildfire
literate
live
lively
living
logical
mercurial
mind
move it
nimble
nimble-witted
nippy
on the ball
on the double
oversensitive
parturient
perceptive
percipient
perfunctory
perspicacious
piercing
posthaste
precise
pregnant
prenatal
presto
prevailing
prompt
promptly
pronto
prudent
quick on the draw
quick on the trigger
quick on the uptake
quick-witted
quickened
quickly
rapid
rapid-fire
rapidly
rashly
rational
rattling
readily
ready
ready-witted
reasonable
receptive
recklessly
resourceful
responsive
resurrected
rush
rushed
sagacious
sage
sane
sapient
savvy
scholarly
schooled
sensible
sensitive
sharp
sharp as a tack
sharp-witted
shrewd
skilled
skillful
slick
smart
smart as a whip
snappily
snappy
soon
soul
sound
speedily
speedy
spirited
split-second
splitting
sprightly
spry
strenuous
strong
subtle
sudden
suddenly
summary
supersensitive
supersmart
surviving
swift
swiftly
the lead out
thriving
trained
ultrafast
ultrarapid
ultrasmart
vibrant
vigorous
vigorously
vital
vivacious
well-read
whirlwind
whiz
willing
wily
winged
wired
wise
with child
with young
zippy

Antonyms for quick

aborting
absent
absurd
airheaded
asinine
asleep
bad
balmy
barren
belatedly
birdbrained
blunt
boneheaded
boobish
brain-dead
brainless
breathless
bubbleheaded
chuckleheaded
clumsy
cockeyed
cold
crackpot
crawling
crazy
creeping
cuckoo
daffy
daft
dallying
dawdling
dead
deadened
deceased
defunct
delayed
deliberate
deliberately
delinquently
delivered
dense
departed
desert
dilatory
dillydallying
dim
dim-witted
dimmed
dippy
doltish
dopey
dopy
dorky
dormant
dotty
dragging
dull
dulled
dumb
dunderheaded
dying
empty-headed
expired
extinct
fading
fallen
fatuous
featherheaded
feebleminded
finished
fool
foolish
ghostlike
ghostly
ghosty
gone
gormless
half-baked
half-witted
harebrained
idiotic
idiotical
idle
ignorant
illiterate
imbecile
imbecilic
imperceptive
impotent
imprecise
inaccurate
inactive
inanimate
ineffective
inept
inert
infertile
insane
insensible
insensitive
knuckleheaded
kookie
kooky
laggard
laggardly
lagging
lamebrain
lamebrained
languid
lapsed
late
later
lazy
lazyish
leisurely
lifeless
lingering
lingeringly
loggy
logy
looney
loony
lost
lowbrow
lunatic
lunkheaded
mad
measured
mindless
miscarrying
moribund
moronic
nonexistent
nonintellectual
nonliving
nonpregnant
nonsensical
numb
nutty
obtuse
opaque
perished
pinheaded
plodding
ploddingly
pokey
poking
poky
preposterous
reposing
resting
sappy
screwball
senseless
silly
simple
simpleminded
slothful
slow
slow-witted
slowish
slowly
sluggish
sluggishly
soft
softheaded
stillborn
stupid
tardily
tardy
terminated
thick
thick-witted
thickheaded
tomfool
ultraslow
unacademic
unbrilliant
uneducated
unhurried
uninformed
unintellectual
unintelligent
unresponsive
unsmart
untaught
unthinking
unwise
useless
vacuous
vanished
wacky
weak
weak-minded
whacky
wiped out
witless
zany
zombielike

Meanings of quick

noun
1. Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
2. Plants used in making a quickset hedge.
3. The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
4. Quitchgrass.
5. A fast bowler.
verb
1. To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
2. To quicken.
adjective
1. Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
2. Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
3. Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
4. Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
5. Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
6. Alive, living.
7. Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
8. Of water: flowing.
9. Burning, flammable, fiery.
10. Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
11. (of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren.
adverb
1. Quickly, in a quick manner.

Example Sentences

She made a quick decision to accept the job offer without hesitation.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog, illustrating agility and speed.
With a quick glance, he scanned the room for any signs of danger.
The chef prepared a quick meal using simple ingredients for dinner.
A quick apology can often mend relationships before they deteriorate further.

On this page you'll find 464 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to quick, such as: ASAP, a mile a minute, a move on, able, aborting, abrupt, abruptly.

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