Antonyms for quicks
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : kwik |
Phonetic Transcription : kwɪk |
Definition of quicks
Origin :- Old English cwic "living, alive, animate," and figuratively, of mental qualities, "rapid, ready," from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz (cf. Old Saxon and Old Frisian quik, Old Norse kvikr "living, alive," Dutch kwik "lively, bright, sprightly," Old High German quec "lively," German keck "bold"), from PIE root *gweie- "to live" (see bio-). Sense of "lively, swift" developed by late 12c., on notion of "full of life."
- NE swift or the now more common fast may apply to rapid motion of any duration, while in quick (in accordance with its original sense of 'live, lively') there is a notion of 'sudden' or 'soon over.' We speak of a fast horse or runner in a race, a quick starter but not a quick horse. A somewhat similar feeling may distinguish NHG schnell and rasch or it may be more a matter of local preference. [Buck]
- Of persons, "mentally active," from late 15c. Also in Middle English used of soft soils, gravel pits, etc. where the ground is shifting and yielding (mid-14c., cf. quicksand). As an adverb from c.1300. To be quick about something is from 1937. Quick buck is from 1946, American English. Quick-change artist (1886) originally was an actor expert in playing different roles in the same performance of a show. Quick-witted is from 1520s.
- As in marrow : noun heart, essence
- As in root : noun base, core
- As in soft spot : noun raw spot
- As in center : noun middle point
- As in gravamen : noun heart
- As in midpoint : noun center
- As in core : noun center, gist
- As in heart : noun essence, central part
- Once we had got thoroughly in with the Quicks, that was not long in coming.
- Extract from : « Ravensdene Court » by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
- The Quicks were as sharp as their name—they knew the sort of men they wanted.
- Extract from : « Ravensdene Court » by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
- But now about that island and the Quicks, and how they and the rest of us got out of it.
- Extract from : « Ravensdene Court » by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
- The quicks are not so good as when they were planted; it can never make a good hedge.
- Extract from : « Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation » by James Buckman
- The next subject for consideration is that of the planting of the quicks.
- Extract from : « Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation » by James Buckman
- Mr. Hearty was preoccupied with the quicks of his finger-nails.
- Extract from : « Mrs. Bindle » by Hebert Jenkins
- At a little after three they were in Quicks Hole, bobbing about gayly in the wake of a steamer.
- Extract from : « Four Afloat » by Ralph Henry Barbour
- Old bundles of quicks, that have stood it may be two or three weekly markets, will be sure to cause disappointment.
- Extract from : « Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation » by James Buckman
- We escaped the quicks, thank heaven, and just at dark the welcome lights of the school shone out in the narrow valley.
- Extract from : « Mothering on Perilous » by Lucy S. Furman
- These rubies that the Quicks had came from there—they were remarkably fine ones.
- Extract from : « Ravensdene Court » by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
Synonyms for quicks
- amount
- axis
- base
- basic
- basis
- bedrock
- beginnings
- body
- bosom
- bottom
- bottom line
- bulk
- bull's-eye
- burden
- cause
- center
- centrality
- centriole
- centrum
- coal and ice
- consequence
- core
- corpus
- cream
- crux
- cynosure
- derivation
- equidistance
- essence
- essentiality
- exposed nerve
- focal point
- focus
- footing
- foundation
- fountain
- fountainhead
- fundamental
- germ
- gist
- ground
- groundwork
- heart
- hotbed
- hub
- import
- importance
- in the gut
- inception
- infrastructure
- inside
- interior
- intermediacy
- kernel
- main idea
- mainspring
- mainstream
- marrow
- mass
- meat
- meat and potatoes
- median
- middle
- middle of the road
- midpoint
- midst
- motive
- nave
- navel
- nerve ending
- nitty gritty
- nitty-gritty
- nub
- nucleus
- occasion
- omphalos
- origin
- pith
- pivot
- place
- polestar
- provenance
- provenience
- purport
- quick
- quintessence
- quintessential
- radial point
- radicle
- radix
- raw
- raw nerve
- reason
- rhizome
- rock bottom
- root
- seat
- seed
- significance
- sore point
- sore spot
- soul
- source
- spirit
- staple
- starting point
- stem
- stuff
- substance
- substratum
- tender spot
- the quick
- thrust
- tuber
- underpinning
- upshot
- virtuality
- weakness
- well
- where it hurts
- where one lives
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