quiche | (noun) a tart filled with rich unsweetened custard; often contains other ingredients (as cheese or ham or seafood or vegetables) | - |
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quick | (adjective) moving quickly and lightly | Synonyms: agile, nimble, spry |
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(adjective) easily aroused or excited | Synonyms: warm |
(adjective) accomplished rapidly and without delay | Synonyms: speedy |
(adjective) hurried and brief | Synonyms: fast, flying |
(adjective) apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity | Synonyms: ready |
(adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: immediate, prompt, straightaway |
(noun) any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail) | - |
(adverb) with little or no delay | Synonyms: promptly, quickly |
quicken | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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(verb) show signs of life | - |
(verb) give life or energy to | Synonyms: invigorate |
(verb) move faster | Synonyms: accelerate, speed, speed up |
(verb) make keen or more acute | Synonyms: whet |
quickener | (noun) an agent that gives or restores life or vigor | Synonyms: enlivener, invigorator |
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quickening | (noun) the act of accelerating; increasing the speed | Synonyms: acceleration, speedup |
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(noun) the process of showing signs of life | - |
(noun) the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels the movements of the fetus | - |
quicker | (adverb) more quickly | Synonyms: faster |
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quickest | (adverb) most quickly | Synonyms: fastest |
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quickie | (noun) hurried repair | Synonyms: band aid, quick fix, quicky |
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quicklime | (noun) a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide | Synonyms: burnt lime, calcined lime, calcium oxide, calx, fluxing lime, lime, unslaked lime |
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quickly | (adverb) with speed | Synonyms: apace, chop-chop, in short order, rapidly, speedily |
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(adverb) with little or no delay | Synonyms: promptly, quick |
(adverb) without taking pains | Synonyms: cursorily |
quickness | (noun) a rate that is rapid | Synonyms: celerity, rapidity, rapidness, speediness |
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(noun) intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay | Synonyms: mental quickness, quick-wittedness |
(noun) skillful performance or ability without difficulty | Synonyms: adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility |
quicksand | (noun) a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down | - |
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(noun) a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy | - |
quickset | (adjective) grown from cuttings planted directly in the ground | - |
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(noun) cuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines | - |
quicksilver | (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: erratic, fickle, mercurial |
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(noun) a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures | Synonyms: atomic number 80, Hg, hydrargyrum, mercury |
quickstep | (noun) a ballroom dance with both quick and slow steps | - |
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(noun) military march accompanying quick time | - |
(verb) perform a quickstep | - |
quicky | (noun) hurried repair | Synonyms: band aid, quick fix, quickie |
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