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Zealous is a related term of quick.


As adjectives the difference between zealous and quick

is that zealous is full of zeal; ardent, fervent; exhibiting enthusiasm or strong passion while quick is moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.

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.

zealous

English

Alternative forms

* zelous

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Full of zeal; ardent, fervent; exhibiting enthusiasm or strong passion.
  • * 1791 , , volume 1, page 238:
    • Johnson was truly zealous for the success of "The Adventurer;" and very soon after his engaging in it, he wrote the following letter:
  • * 1896 , , A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (2004 edition), page 122:
    • Doubtless many will exclaim against the Roman Catholic Church for this; but the simple truth is that Protestantism was no less zealous against the new scientific doctrine.
  • * 1940 , Foster Rhea Dulles, America Learns to Play: A history of popular recreation, 1607-1940 , page 61:
    • and there were few more zealous dancers at the fashionable balls in the Raleigh Tavern at Williamsburg.
  • * 2011 April 4, " Newt Gingrich," Time (retrieved 9 Sept 2013):
    • Newt Gingrich . . . left Congress in 1998, following GOP midterm-election losses that many blamed on his zealous pursuit of Bill Clinton's impeachment.

    Synonyms

    * (full of zeal) ardent, eager, enthusiastic, fervent, passionate, zealotic

    Antonyms

    * (full of zeal) apathetic, dispassionate, indifferent, unenthusiastic

    Derived terms

    * overzealous * zealously * zealousness

    Related terms

    * jealous * zeal * zealot * zealotic * zealotical * zealotry

    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

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