adept at changing from one thing to another especially changing costumes
<adj.all>   (a)

quick-change

sample sentences

"a quick-change artist"

of a liquid substance that dries quickly
<adj.all>

quick-drying

having keen hearing
<adj.all>

quick-eared

sharp-eared

freeze rapidly so as to preserve the natural juices and flavors
<verb.change>

flash-freeze

quick-freeze

sample sentences

"quick-freeze the shrimp"

(used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value
<adj.all>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

flash-frozen

frozen

quick-frozen

sample sentences

"frozen foods"

keenly perceptive or alert
<adj.all>

quick-sighted

sharp-eyed

sharp-sighted

sample sentences

"quick-sighted into the faults of the time"- Leonard Bacon

having very keen vision
<adj.all>

argus-eyed

hawk-eyed

keen-sighted

lynx-eyed

quick-sighted

sharp-eyed

sharp-sighted

sample sentences

"quick-sighted as a cat"

quickly aroused to anger
<adj.all>

choleric

hot-tempered

hotheaded

irascible

quick-tempered

short-tempered

sample sentences

"a hotheaded commander"

mentally nimble and resourceful
<adj.all>

quick-witted

sample sentences

"quick-witted debater"
"saved an embarrassing situation with quick-witted tact"

intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay
<noun.cognition>

mental quickness

quick-wittedness

quickness

move faster
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accelerate

quicken

speed

speed up

sample sentences

"The car accelerated"

give new life or energy to
<verb.body>   freq. cnt.: 11 freq. cnt.: 5 freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 2

animate

quicken

reanimate

recreate

renovate

repair

revive

revivify

vivify

sample sentences

"A hot soup will revive me"
"This will renovate my spirits"
"This treatment repaired my health"

show signs of life
<verb.body>

quicken

sample sentences

"the fetus quickened"

give life or energy to
<verb.change>

invigorate

quicken

sample sentences

"The cold water invigorated him"

make keen or more acute
<verb.perception>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

quicken

whet

sample sentences

"whet my appetite"

an agent that gives or restores life or vigor
<noun.object>

enlivener

invigorator

quickener

sample sentences

"the soul is the quickener of the body"

the process of showing signs of life
<noun.process>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

quickening

sample sentences

"the quickening of seed that will become ripe grain"

the act of accelerating; increasing the speed
<noun.act>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

acceleration

quickening

speedup

the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels the movements of the fetus
<noun.state>

quickening

more quickly
<adv.all>   freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 1

faster

quicker

most quickly
<adv.all>

fastest

quickest

hurried repair
<noun.act>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

band aid

quick fix

quickie

quicky

a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide
<noun.substance>

burnt lime

calcined lime

calcium oxide

calx

fluxing lime

lime

quicklime

unslaked lime

with speed
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apace

chop-chop

in short order

quickly

rapidly

speedily

sample sentences

"he works quickly"
"John got ready in short order"

with little or no delay
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promptly

quick

quickly

sample sentences

"the rescue squad arrived promptly"
"come here, quick!"

without taking pains
<adv.all>

cursorily

quickly

sample sentences

"he looked cursorily through the magazine"

skillful performance or ability without difficulty
<noun.cognition>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

adeptness

adroitness

deftness

facility

quickness

sample sentences

"his quick adeptness was a product of good design"
"he was famous for his facility as an archer"

a rate that is rapid
<noun.attribute>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

celerity

quickness

rapidity

rapidness

speediness

intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay
<noun.cognition>

mental quickness

quick-wittedness

quickness

a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down
<noun.object>

quicksand

a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy
<noun.state>

quicksand

grown from cuttings planted directly in the ground
<adj.all>   (a)

quickset

sample sentences

"a quickset hawthorn hedge"

cuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines
<noun.plant>

quickset

sample sentences

"a quickset of a vine planted in a vineyard"

liable to sudden unpredictable change
<adj.all>   (a)   freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

erratic

fickle

mercurial

quicksilver

sample sentences

"erratic behavior"
"fickle weather"
"mercurial twists of temperament"
"a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"

a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
<noun.substance>   freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 6

Hg

atomic number 80

hydrargyrum

mercury

quicksilver

a ballroom dance with both quick and slow steps
<noun.act>

quickstep

military march accompanying quick time
<noun.communication>

quickstep

perform a quickstep
<verb.motion>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

quickstep

hurried repair
<noun.act>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

band aid

quick fix

quickie

quicky

a wad of something chewable as tobacco
<noun.food>

chaw

chew

cud

plug

quid

wad

something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something he does or gives or promises
<noun.possession>

quid

quid pro quo

the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
<noun.quantity>   freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

British pound

British pound sterling

pound

pound sterling

quid

something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something he does or gives or promises
<noun.possession>

quid

quid pro quo

the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other
<noun.cognition>

haecceity

quiddity

an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
<noun.communication>

cavil

quibble

quiddity

a person who meddles in the affairs of others
<noun.person>

busybody

nosey-parker

nosy-parker

quidnunc