quite

Meanings

Plural: quites

Adverb

• to a degree (not used with a negative)
  • "quite tasty"
  • "quite soon"
  • "quite ill"
  • "quite rich"
• 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"
• 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"
• actually or truly or to an extreme
  • "was quite a sudden change"
  • "it's quite the thing to do"
  • "quite the rage"
  • "Quite so!"

Adv

• To the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely.
• With verbs, especially past participles.
• To the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely.
• With prepositional phrases and spatial adverbs.
• To the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely.
• With predicative adjectives.
• To the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely.
• With attributive adjectives, following an (especially indefinite) article; chiefly as expressing contrast, difference etc.
• To the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely.
• Preceding nouns introduced by the indefinite article. Chiefly in negative constructions.
• To the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely.
• With adverbs of manner.
• In a fully justified sense; truly, perfectly, actually.
• Coming before the indefinite article and an attributive adjective. (Now largely merged with moderative senses, below.)
• In a fully justified sense; truly, perfectly, actually.
• With plain adjectives, past participles, and adverbs.
• In a fully justified sense; truly, perfectly, actually.
• Coming before the definite article and an attributive superlative.
• In a fully justified sense; truly, perfectly, actually.
• Before a noun preceded by an indefinite article; now often with ironic implications that the noun in question is particularly noteworthy or remarkable.
• In a fully justified sense; truly, perfectly, actually.
• Before a noun preceded by the definite article.
• In a fully justified sense; truly, perfectly, actually.
• With prepositional or adverbial phrases.
• To a moderate extent or degree; somewhat, rather.

Intj

• Indicates agreement; exactly so.

Noun

• A series of passes made with the cape to distract the bull.

Synonyms

absolutely, acceptably, adequately, all the way, all-out, altogether, and barrel, and sinker, at large, at length, averagely, cap-a-pie, categorically, completely, detailly, downright, entirely, exhaustively, fairly, finally, first and last, flat out, flat-out, from A to Z, from aardvark to zymurgy, from head to toe, from soup to nuts, from stem to stern, from the rooter to the tooter, from top to bottom, from top to toe, fully, halfway, head to foot, head to tail, head to toe, heartily, hook, in a way, in detail, in full, indifferent, line, lock, mackly, middlesome, middling, middlingly, moderately, not quite, one hundred percent, out and out, out-and-out, outright, partially, particularly, passably, perfectly, plumb, purely, quite, quite a, quite an, rather, reasonably, right, root and branch, somewhat, somewhatly, soundly, soup-to-nuts, stock, sufficiently, thoroughly, through and through, to the bone, to the core, to the full, tolerably, top to tail, top to toe, totally, totes, utterly, very, well and truly, whole, whole cloth, wholly

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