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quick off the mark

quick off the mark adjective: fast to act or react.

Adjective

quick off the mark (comparative quicker off the mark, superlative quickest off the mark)

  1. (idiomatic) fast to act or react

quick off the mark meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

quick off the mark in Bengali

কোনো কাজে, প্রতিক্রিয়ায় দ্রুত

quick off the mark in Malayalam

quick-witted, alert, quick
ദ്രുതഗതിയിൽ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്ന, ജാഗ്രതയുള്ള, ചുറുചുറുക്കുള്ള, ഊർജ്ജസ്വലമായ, ശീഘ്രഗതിയായ, ജാഗ്രത പുലർത്തുന്ന

Antonyms of quick off the mark

Forms of quick off the mark

comparativequicker off the mark
superlativequickest off the mark

Origin of quick off the mark

From sports races, where the mark in this case is the point from which the racers start.

Questions about quick off the mark

What does quick off the mark mean?
Quick off the mark means fast to act or react.
What is quick off the mark in Bengali?
Quick off the mark in Bengali is কোনো কাজে, প্রতিক্রিয়ায় দ্রুত. See Quick off the mark meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is quick off the mark?
Quick off the mark is an adjective.

Words near quick off the mark in the dictionary

  1. quick link
  2. quick links
  3. quick match
  4. quick matches
  5. quick mud
  6. quick off the mark
  7. quick on one's feet
  8. quick on the draw
  9. quick on the uptake
  10. quick pitch
  11. quick pitches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quick off the mark (page history and authors); quick off the mark (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quick off the mark (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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