kwik

Adjective

quick (comparative quicker or more quick, superlative quickest or most quick)

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.

   Synonyms:

   fast

2. Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
   • That was a quick meal.

   Synonyms:

   ready, brief

3. Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
   • You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.

   Synonyms:

   bright

4. Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
   • My father is old but he still has a quick wit.
5. Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
   • She has a very quick temper.

   Synonyms:

   hotheaded, rattish, short-tempered, snippish, snippy

6. (archaic) Alive, living.
   • I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Ieſus Chriſt, who ſhall iudge the quicke and the dead at his appearing, and his kingdome:1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Timothy 4:1, column 2

   Synonyms:

   extant

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