Quick vs Punctual - What's the difference?
quick | punctual | Related terms |
Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
Of temper: easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
* Latimer
(archaic) Alive, living.
* Bible, 2 Timothy iv. 1
* Herbert
* 1874 , , X
(archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
* Shakespeare
Of water: flowing.
Burning, flammable, fiery.
Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
* Shakespeare
(mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren
(colloquial) with speed, quickly
* John Locke
raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
plants used in making a quickset hedge
* Evelyn
The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
* Latimer
* Fuller
quitchgrass
To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
To quicken.
* (Thomas Hardy)
prompt or on time
# (of an event ) Happening at the appointed time
# (of a person ) Acting at the appointed time
(mathematics) Existing as a point or series of points
(linguistics) Expressing momentary action that has no duration
Quick is a related term of punctual.
As adjectives the difference between quick and punctual
is that quick is moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast while punctual is prompt or on time.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)- I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.
- He's a quick runner.
- That was a quick meal.
- You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.
- My father is old but he still has a quick wit.
- The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended.
- the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead
- Man is no star, but a quick coal / Of mortal fire.
- The inmost oratory of my soul,
- Wherein thou ever dwellest quick or dead,
- Is black with grief eternal for thy sake.
- she's quick ; the child brags in her belly already: tis yours
- The air is quick there, / And it pierces and sharpens the stomach.
Synonyms
* (moving with speed) fast, speedy, rapid, swift * See alsoAntonyms
* (moving with speed) slowDerived 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-wittedAdverb
(er)- Get rich quick.
- Come here, quick !
- If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed.
Noun
(en noun)- The works are curiously hedged with quick .
- This test nippeth, this toucheth the quick .
- How feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference!
- (Tennyson)
Derived terms
* cut to the quick * to the quickVerb
(en verb)- I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey.
References
* * 1000 English basic words ----punctual
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Alternative forms
* punctuall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Luis is never late; he's the most punctual person I know.