Crossword clues for quickest
quickest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quick \Quick\, a. [Compar. Quicker; superl. Quickest.] [As. cwic, cwicu, cwucu, cucu, living; akin to OS. quik, D. kwik, OHG. quec, chec, G. keck bold, lively, Icel. kvikr living, Goth. qius, Lith. q[=y]vas, Russ. zhivoi, L. vivus living, vivere to live, Gr. bi`os life, Skr. j[=i]va living, j[=i]v to live. Cf. Biography, Vivid, Quitch grass, Whitlow.]
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Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate.
Not fully quyke, ne fully dead they were.
--Chaucer.The Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom.
--2 Tim. iv. 1.Man is no star, but a quick coal Of mortal fire. -- Herbert.
Note: In this sense the word is nearly obsolete, except in some compounds, or in particular phrases.
Characterized by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready. `` A quick wit.''
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Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick.
Oft he her his charge of quick return Repeated.
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Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper.
The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended. -- Latimer.
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Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
The air is quick there, And it pierces and sharpens the stomach. -- Shak.
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Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a quick ear. ``To have an open ear, a quick eye.''
--Shak.They say that women are so quick.
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Pregnant; with child.
--Shak.Quick grass. (Bot.) See Quitch grass.
Quick match. See under Match.
Quick vein (Mining), a vein of ore which is productive, not barren.
Quick vinegar, vinegar made by allowing a weak solution of alcohol to trickle slowly over shavings or other porous material.
Quick water, quicksilver water.
Quick with child, pregnant with a living child.
Syn: Speedy; expeditious; swift; rapid; hasty; prompt; ready; active; brisk; nimble; fleet; alert; agile; lively; sprightly.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: quick)
WordNet
adv. most quickly [syn: fastest]
Usage examples of "quickest".
During the day of the twenty-fifth, a Friday, it became known that the German Foreign Office had wired the embassies and consulates in Poland, France and Britain requesting that German citizens be asked to leave by the quickest route.
Taken together, they pulled her away from Nammerin and sent her, via the quickest available means, to Space Force Headquarters on Galcen for assignment to general duty.
I chased after the pack and as it turned out I was the quickest one out there.
The proper use of your eyes in both racing and driving on the road everyday can save you from having an accident, and give you the quickest lap time consistently.
Lesbos and Chios which lie very close to Turkey--Chios is only a few miles, practically swimming distance, from the Turkish coast, and the quickest way to get from Greece to Smyrna.
Skirting along the perimeter of Koth was the quickest route to the library, and allowed Lukien a safe view of his former home.
The quickest route to Natawni is north from Fallsend, out of Thaine, into Fereng and from there to Jaddayoth.
Of course, we knew he would hire trackers to bring us back, or try to, as he had done when Panthera had escaped before, but we counted on him thinking we would opt for the quickest route, which was south.
Only reaching Jael by the quickest possible route will make me feel safe!
Panthera and his father spread sheets of paper over the table to draw maps and decide which would be the quickest route to Eulalee.
After taking the quickest shower on record--scenes from the movie Psycho kept running through her mind, which greatly expedited the proceedings--in the second bathroom, she toweled off, stepped into her own undies, and pulled on a lemon yellow T-shirt dress with a big pink rose on the front of it.
They were both dripping and freezing and too intent on their own separate agendas to do anything about it as she trailed after him while he walked quickly from room to room, turning on lights and conducting what was probably the quickest, least thorough search in history.
She showed the quickest possible smile, a flash of those bright big teeth, then she closed his fingers around her gift.
A red dwarf sun passed nearby, tides lifting the dust, leaving a gaping hole that Xo patched badly, shoving a portion of his reserves into the breach with his quickest, sloppiest hands.
All five snakes converged upon it, where finally the smallest and quickest of them captured and swallowed the glistening blue ball.