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quite
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
quite
predeterminer
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be quite a novelty (=seem quite new and different)
▪ In the 1970s, a woman sports reporter was quite a novelty.
be quite an achievement (=be an impressive achievement)
▪ Working and bringing up kids on your own is quite an achievement.
completely/totally/quite wrong
▪ I may be completely wrong.
fairly/quite obvious (also pretty obviousspoken)
▪ There are some fairly obvious signs of a poor diet.
I quite agree/I couldn’t agree more (=I agree completely)
▪ ‘We have to talk.’ ‘Absolutely,’ Meredith replied. ‘I couldn’t agree more.’
is quite an art (=it is difficult to do)
▪ Writing advertisements is quite an art.
just/quite the opposite (=exactly the opposite)
▪ He wasn’t laughing. Quite the opposite, in fact.
not quite/entirely sure
▪ ‘What are they?’ ‘I’m not entirely sure.’
perfectly/quite possible (=definitely possible)
▪ Combining a family with a career is perfectly possible .
perfectly/quite satisfactory
▪ For a small amount of cream, a wire whisk is perfectly satisfactory.
quite a bit more/less
▪ They’re worth quite a bit more than I thought.
quite a while (=a fairly long time)
▪ We talked for quite a while on the phone.
quite all right
▪ ‘Thanks for all your help!’ ‘That’s quite all right.’
Quite apart from
▪ Quite apart from the cost, we need to think about how much time the job will take.
quite content
▪ He seemed quite content to let Steve do the talking.
quite distinct
▪ The learning needs of the two groups are quite distinct from each other.
quite exceptional (=very exceptional)
▪ The level of effort involved is really quite exceptional.
quite like
▪ I quite like their new album.
quite likelyBritish English (= very likely)
▪ As parents, if we expect bad behaviour we are quite likely to get it.
quite normal (=completely normal)
▪ He sounded quite normal when he phoned.
quite perfectwritten (= absolutely perfect)
▪ The old bottle was very dark blue and quite perfect.
Quite possibly (=it is very likely)
▪ ‘Was it murder?’ ‘Quite possibly .’
quite ridiculous (=completely ridiculous)
▪ I thought his behaviour was quite ridiculous.
quite right (=completely right)
▪ You were quite right – we should never have gone with them.
quite rightlyBritish English
▪ There’s a lot of talk, quite rightly, about the dangers of smoking.
quite scared
▪ Some of the children were quite scared.
quite shocked
▪ I was quite shocked by her appearance.
quite simply
▪ It is quite simply the most ridiculous idea I’ve ever heard.
quite sure
▪ Are you quite sure she won’t mind?
quite surprised
▪ I was quite surprised at his reaction.
quite unawareBritish English (= completely unaware)
▪ Laura seemed quite unaware that she had offended me.
quite unnecessaryBritish English
▪ ‘I’ll give you a lift.’ ‘Thank you, but that’s quite unnecessary.’
quite uselessBritish English (= completely useless)
▪ The vehicle proved quite useless on rocky ground.
quite/fairly expensive
▪ The food’s quite expensive, but it’s really nice.
quite/fairly similar
▪ The two species are quite similar.
quite/most extraordinaryBritish English
▪ Chris’s behaviour that morning was quite extraordinary.
quite/perfectly willing
▪ I told them I was perfectly willing to help.
quite/pretty cold
▪ It’s going to be quite cold today.
quite/slightly/completely etc absurd
▪ It seems quite absurd to expect anyone to drive for 3 hours just for a 20-minute meeting.
quite/very often
▪ I quite often go to Paris on business.
quite/very/perfectly properly
▪ People are, quite properly, proud of their homes.
rather/pretty/quite/fairly unlikely
▪ I may have thrown it away by mistake, but that’s pretty unlikely.
rather/somewhat/quite/fairly unusual
▪ The design of the house was somewhat unusual.
relatively/fairly/quite simple
▪ The rules are quite simple.
relatively/quite/fairly straightforward
▪ Installing the program is relatively straightforward.
very/extremely/quite/pretty etc clever
▪ Lucy is quite clever and does well at school.
very/quite often
▪ Very often children who behave badly at school have problems at home.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
It's one thing to ... it's (quite) another to
be (quite) a different matter
▪ But the Friday round, during which a steady rain fell unceasingly, was a different matter.
▪ But the possessions of the church of Canterbury were a different matter.
▪ But the saying and the doing are different matters and are often worlds apart.
▪ However, in the workplace, where productivity thrives on positive relationships, it can be a different matter.
▪ The others looked at me oddly; they didn't have bulimics in their group - that was a different matter.
be (really/quite) something
▪ But there was something else, too.
▪ Cancer was something you cut out and that was that.
▪ It lies unassimilated on the edge of my under-standing; there is something I must learn from it.
▪ Practice time is something else everyone seems to take for granted.
▪ She thinks this is something that concerns you, too.
▪ Surely there was something more to it.
▪ That is something that special educators have, so far, lamentably failed to offer disabled children and their families.
▪ Yes, there was something in there and I bet myself it would be Jo's emerald pendant.
not ... just/quite the opposite
▪ His falsity and hollowness are not just the opposite of the true and the wholesome, but threaten to undermine it.
on the contrary/quite the contrary
quite a bit
▪ He owes me quite a bit of money.
▪ Jim has improved quite a bit since he came home from the hospital.
▪ She's quite a bit shorter than I remembered.
▪ She said she learned quite a bit.
▪ The estimates were a fair bit higher than what the final figure was.
▪ We've had quite a bit of snow this year so far.
▪ Alongside me was Sam Ratcliffe who, at the tender age of sixteen, had already had quite a bit of publicity.
▪ But it's already created quite a bit of controversy.
▪ It gives me hours of pleasurable reading and quite a bit of envious longing for things I can not afford.
▪ My grandson was over today and they played together quite a bit.
▪ That had generated quite a bit of business.
▪ The most noticeable change was in my brother, who had grown quite a bit and was now a third-grader.
▪ There's quite a bit of noise coming from the kitchens.
▪ There was quite a bit of war in the delta, so, some-times, sure.
quite a few/a good few/not a few
that's (quite) enough
▪ Come now, that's enough.
▪ He's in the fourth year of a six-year, $ 75 million contract, and that's enough for him.
▪ I think McDunn at least believes me and that's enough for now.
▪ So it gives pleasure, and that's enough really.
▪ That's quite enough for one day at altitude, there and back.
▪ Well that's enough of mechanical problems lets have some questions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quite

Quite \Quite\ (kw[imac]t), v. t. & i. See Quit. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

Quite

Quite \Quite\ (kw[imac]t), adv. [F. quitte discharged, free, clear; cf. OF. quitement freely, frankly, entirely. See Quit, a.]

  1. Completely; wholly; entirely; totally; perfectly; as, the work is not quite done; the object is quite accomplished; to be quite mistaken.

    Man shall not quite be lost, but saved who will.
    --Milton.

    The same actions may be aimed at different ends, and arise from quite contrary principles.
    --Spectator.

  2. To a great extent or degree; very; very much; considerably. ``Quite amusing.''
    --Macaulay.

    He really looks quite concerned.
    --Landor.

    The island stretches along the land and is quite close to it.
    --Jowett (Thucyd. ).

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
quite

early 14c., adverbial form of Middle English quit, quite (adj.) "free, clear" (see quit (adj.)). Originally "thoroughly;" the weaker sense of "fairly" is attested from mid-19c.

Wiktionary
quite

Etymology 1 adv. 1 (lb en heading) ''To the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely.'' 2 #With verbs, especially past participles. (from 14thc.) 3 #With prepositional phrases and spatial adverbs. (from 15thc.) 4 #With predicative adjectives. (from 15thc.) 5 #With attributive adjectives, following an (especially indefinite) article; chiefly as expressing contrast, difference etc. (from 16thc.) 6 #Preceding nouns introduced by the indefinite article. Chiefly in negative constructions. (from 16thc.) 7 #With adverbs of manner. (from 17thc.) 8 (lb en heading) ''In a fully justified sense; truly, perfectly, actually.'' 9 #Coming before the indefinite article and an attributive adjective. (Now largely merged with moderative senses, below.) (from 17thc.) 10 #With plain adjectives, past participles, and adverbs. (from 18thc.) 11 #Coming before the definite article and an attributive superlative. (from 18thc.) 12 #Before a noun preceded by an indefinite article; now often with ironic implications that the noun in question is particularly noteworthy or remarkable. (from 18thc.) 13 #Before a noun preceded by the definite article. (from 18thc.) 14 #(lb en now rare) With prepositional or adverbial phrases. (from 18thc.) 15 To a moderate extent or degree; somewhat, rather. (from 19thc.) interj. (context chiefly UK English) Indicates agreement; "exactly so". Etymology 2

n. (context bullfighting English) A series of passes made with the cape to distract the bull.

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WordNet
quite

  1. adv. to a degree (not used with a negative); "quite tasty"; "quite soon"; "quite ill"; "quite rich" [syn: rather]

  2. to the greatest extent; completely; "you're quite right"; "she was quite alone"; "was quite mistaken"; "quite the opposite"; "not quite finished"; "did not quite make it"

  3. of an unusually noticeable or exceptional or remarkable kind (not used with a negative); "her victory was quite something"; "she's quite a girl"; "quite a film"; "quite a walk"; "we've had quite an afternoon" [syn: quite a, quite an]

  4. actually or truly or to an extreme; "was quite a sudden change"; "it's quite the thing to do"; "quite the rage"; "Quite so!"

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Usage examples of "quite".

We also know-now-that Elser lived on at Sachsenhausen and then Dachau concentration camps, being accorded, apparently on the express orders of Hitler, who had personally gained so much from the bombing, quite humane treatment under the circumstances.

A daily paper that had dealt faithfully with this accumulating danger would quite as naturally and necessarily have found its distribution impeded, have found itself vigorously outdone by more richly endowed competitors, able because of their wealth to buy up all the most attractive features, able to outdo it in every way with the common reader.

Both formation and breakup of acetylcholine is brought about with exceeding rapidity, and the chemical changes keep up quite handily with the measured rates of depolarization and repolarization taking place along the course of a nerve fiber.

He and I are affinity bonded, which means I can quite literally smell out any scams you dickheads cook up.

My father had a lot of children by quite a number of women, and they all had the affinity gene, but they all left to become Edenists.

That is say there may be a gene for laying two eggs, a rival allele for laying three, another allele for laying four, and so on, although in practice it is unlikely to be quite as simple as this.

No longer ago than yesterday, in one of the most widely circulated papers of this city, there was published an assertion that the mortality in several Homoeopathic Hospitals was not quite five in a hundred, whereas, in what are called by the writer Allopathic Hospitals, it is said to be eleven in a hundred.

Fleda knew what it was an allusion to, and his pathetic air of having received a little slap in the face, tall and fine and kind as he stood there, made her conscious of not quite concealing her knowledge.

Smith, observing our looks of amazement, laughed shortly, and quite mirthlessly.

She was violently aware of the fact that Ambrose was likely quite nude under the robe.

Except for this one problem, that of the Anarch, about which you have so much hostility and distrust, I still think we were off to a quite good beginning.

It will probably be a while before The Angst lifts -- but whenever it happens I will get out of bed again and start writing the mean, cold-blooded bummer that I was not quite ready for today.

Camilla in an anguish that, at his return, seemed quite to have changed her.

Quite unintentionally, he himself had been partly the cause of the murder, but only partly, and when he learned that he had given a pretext to the murderers, he became anguished, stupefied, began imagining things, went Quite off his head, and convinced himself that he was the murderer!

Note that he frequently puts the point of sight quite at the side of his canvas, as at S, which gives almost the effect of angular perspective whilst it preserves the flatness and simplicity of parallel or horizontal perspective.