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quite a few

quite a few determiner: an indefinite and somewhat large number; more than a few; a fair number of; quite a lot.

Determiner

quite a few

  1. An indefinite and somewhat large number; more than a few; a fair number of; quite a lot.
    • I've watched quite a few basketball games in my time.
    • Well, they say money doesn't grow on trees, but what about iron helmets? I appear to have quite a few of those.2022 May 20, ISP, quoting iSorrowproductions, What Happens When You Randomise EVERYTHING In Minecraft
    Synonyms:
    quite some

Noun

quite a few

  1. An indefinite and somewhat large number.
    • About a third, perhaps more, were killed in the war; of the survivors quite a few were wounded, some severely.2016, Walter Laqueur, Worlds Ago: A Memoir of My Journeying Years

quite a few meaning in Urdu

quite a few in Urdu

بہت سے, کافی

Synonyms of quite a few

Questions about quite a few

What does quite a few mean?
Quite a few means an indefinite and somewhat large number; more than a few; a fair number of; quite a lot.
What is quite a few in Urdu?
Quite a few in Urdu is بہت سے, کافی. See Quite a few meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is quite a few?
Quite a few can be a determiner or a noun.

Words near quite a few in the dictionary

  1. quitclaimed
  2. quitclaiming
  3. quitclaims
  4. quite
  5. quite a bit
  6. quite a few
  7. quite good
  8. quite poor
  9. quite so
  10. quite some
  11. quite the contrary

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quite a few (page history and authors); quite a few (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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