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quite a

adv. 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, quite an]

Usage examples of "quite a".

Applying a mild repulsion to this--which was itself quite a world, with its diameter of over three thousand miles, though evidently as cold and dead as the earth's old moon--they retarded their forward rush, knowing that the resulting motion towards Jupiter would be helped by the giant's pull.

All in all quite a facinating exploration into a broad new territory for Herbert, marking him as one of the great pioneers of the genre of Science Fiction.

I felt myself quite a new man, ready to go anywhere my uncle chose to lead.

We threw their race into quite a dilemma, for no one thought any lifeform survived on Earth.

Over the years he had amassed quite a retirement fund from temporary duty pay and he never went anywhere, anymore, unless it was at max per diem.

But if they feel a degree of cold in proportion to the elevation they attain in the atmosphere, we experienced quite a contrary effect.

Jenne is, in fact, quite a commercial city: it supplies all the wants of Timbuctoo.

A country meeting-house, that was used once a month, was quite a distance from any other house.