Qualities
Synonyms for quick
Synonyms for quick: warm, speedy, fast, immediate and ready. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 5 synonyms for quick
Interchangeable with quick, one per sense
Audited under quick's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one quick carries in that sense.
- warmadjective, in the sense "easily aroused or excited"
- speedyadjective, in the sense "accomplished rapidly and without delay"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name quick as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
The first group is filed under quick's own senses. The second reach quick from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
easily aroused or excited
A quick temper.
quick in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The new supervisor has a quick temper and snaps at the smallest mistake.
- Her father was quick to anger whenever the crops failed.
How it behaves: In this sense quick usually modifies a noun like temper or precedes to plus a verb, as in quick to anger, and appears in everyday rather than formal writing.
The true synonym
warm
Same sentence, swapped: A warm temper.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- clean
- inside
- game
Opposites, in this sense
calm, placid and slow reverse quick as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of quick takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- calm
- placid
- slow
accomplished rapidly and without delay
His quick reaction prevented an accident.
The true synonym
speedy
Same sentence, swapped: His speedy reaction prevented an accident.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for quick in the sentence quoted.
- warm
- clean
- living
Where quick turns up in the game
quick is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where quick is the trap
- cuteadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is precious, in the sense "obviously contrived to charm", and quick is on the board beside it.
- flyingnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is flight, in the sense "an instance of traveling by air", and quick is on the board beside it.
- warmadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is strong, in the sense "freshly made or left", and quick is one of the three tiles that lose.
- shockingadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is shameful, in the sense "giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation", with quick sitting one tile away.
Play quick
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so quick reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from qualities at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. quick carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.