Quick vs Jocund - What's the difference?

Quick is a related term of jocund.

As adjectives the difference between quick and jocund

is that quick is moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast while jocund is jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness.

As an adverb quick

is (colloquial) with speed, quickly.

As a noun quick

is raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.

As a verb quick

is to amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.

quick

English

(wikipedia quick)

Adjective

(er)

Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.

I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.

He's a quick runner.

Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.

That was a quick meal.

Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.

You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.

Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.

My father is old but he still has a quick wit.

Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.

* Latimer

The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended.

(archaic) Alive, living.

* Bible, 2 Timothy iv. 1

the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead

* Herbert

Man is no star, but a quick coal / Of mortal fire.

* 1874 , , X

The inmost oratory of my soul,

Wherein thou ever dwellest quick or dead,

Is black with grief eternal for thy sake.

(archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.

* Shakespeare

she's quick ; the child brags in her belly already: tis yours

Of water: flowing.

Burning, flammable, fiery.

Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.

* Shakespeare

The air is quick there, / And it pierces and sharpens the stomach.

(mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren

Synonyms

* (moving with speed) fast, speedy, rapid, swift * See also

Antonyms

* (moving with speed) slow

Derived terms

* kwik * quick-change artist * quick-drying * quicken * quick fix * quickie * quicklime * quickly * quick on his feet * quick on the draw * quicksand * quicksilver * quick smart * quickstep * quick-witted

Adverb

(er)

(colloquial) with speed, quickly

Get rich quick.

Come here, quick !

* John Locke

If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed.

Noun

(en noun)

raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.

plants used in making a quickset hedge

* Evelyn

The works are curiously hedged with quick .

The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.

* Latimer

This test nippeth, this toucheth the quick .

* Fuller

How feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference!

quitchgrass

(Tennyson)

Derived terms

* cut to the quick * to the quick

Verb

(en verb)

To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.

To quicken.

* (Thomas Hardy)

I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey.

References

* * 1000 English basic words ----

jocund

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Jovial; exuberant; lighthearted; merry and in high spirits; exhibiting happiness.

* (rfdate), Thomas Shelton, translator, Don Quixote , Miguel de Cervantes

There was once a widow, fair, young, free, rich, and withal very pleasant and jocund , that fell in love with a certain round and well-set servant of a college.

* (rfdate), William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day / stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.

* (rfdate) William Wordsworth

a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company