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quight

quight is the obsolete form of quite.

quight is the obsolete form of quit.

Meaning of quite

Adverb

quite (not comparable)

  1. With verbs, especially past participles.
    • Thus when they had the witch diſrobed quight, / And all her filthy feature open ſhowne, / They let her goe at will, and wander waies vnknowne.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 49, page 118
  2. With prepositional phrases and spatial adverbs.
    • Margaret passed quite through the pines, and reached the opening beyond which was what was once the yard, but was now, except for a strip of flower-border and turf which showed care, simply a tangle of bushes and briars.1891, Thomas Nelson Page, On Newfound River
  3. With predicative adjectives.
    • El adrea was quite dead. No more will he slink silently upon his unsuspecting prey.1915 December 4 – 1916 January 8, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter V, in The Son of Tarzan, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published March 1917, →OCLC, pages 66–67
  4. With attributive adjectives, following an (especially indefinite) article; chiefly as expressing contrast, difference etc.
    • When I warned him that his words might be offensive to identical twins, he said that identical twins were a quite different case.2003, Richard Dawkins, A Devil's Chaplain
  5. Preceding nouns introduced by the indefinite article. Chiefly in negative constructions.
    • I ventured to hint that he was not quite a fair judge, as [Charles] Churchill had attacked him violently.1791, James Boswell, “[1763]”, in James Boswell, editor, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], volume I, London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC, page 227
  6. With adverbs of manner.
    • However, the proceedings were quite carefully orchestrated to produce what seemed to be a predetermined outcome.2009, John F. Schmutz, The Battle of the Crater: A complete history

See all 15 meanings of quite

Meaning of quit

Verb

quit (third-person singular simple present quits, present participle quitting, simple past and past participle quit or quitted)

  1. (transitive) To leave (a place).
    • The British quit India in the 1940s.
  2. (transitive) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
    • To quit you […] of this fear, […]you have already lookt Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it?1688, William Wake, Preparation for Death
  3. (transitive) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
    • God will relent, and quit thee all his debt;1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 36, line 510
  4. (transitive) To abandon, renounce (a thing).
  5. (ambitransitive) To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
    • After having to work overtime without being paid, I quit my job.
  6. (ambitransitive) To stop, give up (an activity).
    • John is planning to quit smoking.

See all 14 meanings of quit

Forms of quight

third-person singular presentquights
present participlequighting
past participlequighted
pastquighted

Questions about quight

What is quight the obsolete form of?
Quight is the obsolete form of quite.

Words near quight in the dictionary

  1. Quiggles
  2. quiggly
  3. quiggly hole
  4. quiggly holes
  5. Quiggs
  6. quight
  7. quighted
  8. quighting
  9. quights
  10. Quigley
  11. Quigley scale

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quight (page history and authors); quite (page history and authors); quit (page history and authors). 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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