quickとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /kwɪk/, [kw̥ɪk]
• 韻: -ɪk

形容詞

quick (comparative quicker, superlative quickest)

1. Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.

   I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.

   He's a quick runner.

2. Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.

   That was a quick meal.

3. Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.

   You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.

4. Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.

   My father is old but he still has a quick wit.

5. Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
   • (Can we date this quote by Latimer かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended.

6. (archaic) Alive, living.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 2 Timothy 4:1:

     the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead

   • (Can we date this quote by Herbert かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     Man is no star, but a quick coal / Of mortal fire.

   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, X

     The inmost oratory of my soul,

     Wherein thou ever dwellest quick or dead,

     Is black with grief eternal for thy sake.

7. (archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
   • c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii]:

     she's quick; the child brags in her belly already: tis yours

8. Of water: flowing.
9. Burning, flammable, fiery.
10. Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
    • c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […]‎^[1], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon,  […], published 1609, OCLC 78596089, [Act IV, scene i]:

      […] the ayre is quicke there, / And it perces and ſharpens the ſtomacke,

11. (mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren

同意語

• (moving with speed): fast, speedy, rapid, swift; see also Thesaurus:speedy
• (occurring in a short time): brief, momentary, short-lived; see also Thesaurus:ephemeral
• (fast-thinking): bright, droll, keen; see also Thesaurus:witty or Thesaurus:intelligent
• (easily aroused to anger): hotheaded, rattish, short-tempered, snippish, snippy
• (alive, living): extant, live, vital; see also Thesaurus:alive
• (pregnant): expecting, gravid, with child; see also Thesaurus:pregnant
• (flowing): fluent, fluminous; see also Thesaurus:flowing

反意語

• (moving with speed): slow

派生語

関連する語

副詞

quick (comparative quicker, superlative quickest)

1. Quickly, in a quick manner.

   Get rich quick.

   Come here, quick!

   • (Can we date this quote by John Locke かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed.

派生語

• right quick

名詞

quick (複数形 quicks)

1. Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
2. Plants used in making a quickset hedge
   • (Can we date this quote by Evelyn かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     The works […] are curiously hedged with quick.

3. The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
   • (Can we date this quote by Latimer かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     This test nippeth, […] this toucheth the quick.

   • (Can we date this quote by Fuller かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     How feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference!

4. Quitchgrass.

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5. (cricket) A fast bowler.

派生語

動詞

quick (三人称単数 現在形 quicks, 現在分詞 quicking, 過去形および過去分詞形 quicked)

1. (transitive) To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
2. (transitive, archaic, poetic) To quicken.
   • (Can we date this quote by Thomas Hardy かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey.

参照

• quick in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• quick in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• quick at OneLook Dictionary Search