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Galician • Old French
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Engleski

Sistem

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Alternative forms

Etymology 1

A development of quit, influence by Anglo-Norman quite. For an analogous semantic development from the same root, compare Jermenski շատ (šat).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: kwīt, MFA(ključ): /kwaɪt/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rime: -aɪt

Adverb

quite (not comparable)

  1. To the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely.
    Sinonimi: very, absolutely, fully, thoroughly, totally, utterly, Thesaurus:completely
    1. With verbs, especially past participles. [from 14th c.]
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, →OCLC, book I, canto VIII, stanza 49, page 118:
        Thus when they had the witch diſrobed quight, / And all her filthy feature open ſhowne, / They let her goe at will, and wander waies vnknowne.
      • 2005 oktobar 4, Adrian Searle, The Guardian:
        Nobuyoshi Araki has been called a monster, a pornographer and a genius—and the photographer quite agrees.
    2. With prepositional phrases and spatial adverbs. [from 15th c.]
      • 1891, Thomas Nelson Page, On Newfound River:
        Margaret passed quite through the pines, and reached the opening beyond which was what was once the yard, but was now, except for a strip of flower-border and turf which showed care, simply a tangle of bushes and briars.
      • 2010 oktobar 30, Joanna Briscoe, The Guardian:
        Religion and parochial etiquette are probed to reveal unhealthy, and sometimes shockingly violent, internal desires quite at odds with the surface life of a town in which tolerance is preached.
    3. With predicative adjectives. [from 15th c.]
    4. With attributive adjectives, following an (especially indefinite) article; chiefly as expressing contrast, difference etc. [from 16th c.]
      • 2003, Richard Dawkins, A Devil's Chaplain:
        When I warned him that his words might be offensive to identical twins, he said that identical twins were a quite different case.
      • 2011 septembar 18, Peter Preston, The Observer:
        Create a new, quite separate, private company – say Murdoch Newspaper Holdings – and give it all, or most of, the papers that News Corp owns.
    5. Preceding nouns introduced by the indefinite article. Chiefly in negative constructions. [from 16th c.]
    6. With adverbs of manner. [from 17th c.]
      • 2009, John F. Schmutz, The Battle of the Crater: A complete history:
        However, the proceedings were quite carefully orchestrated to produce what seemed to be a predetermined outcome.
      • 2011 oktobar 18, Bob Burgess, The Guardian:
        Higher education institutions in the UK are, quite rightly, largely autonomous.
  2. In a fully justified sense; truly, perfectly, actually.
    1. Coming before the indefinite article and an attributive adjective. (Now largely merged with moderative senses, below.) [from 17th c.]
      • 1898, Charles Garvice, Nell of Shorne Mills:
        "My little plot has been rather successful, after all, hasn't it?" "Quite a perfect success," said Drake.
      • 2001 februar 7, Paul Brown, The Guardian:
        While the government claims to lead the world with its plans to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the figures tell quite a different story.
    2. With plain adjectives, past participles, and adverbs. [from 18th c.]
      • Šablon:RQ:Ferguson Zollenstein
      • 2010 novembar 5, Dave Hill, The Guardian:
        London Underground is quite unique in how many front line staff it has, as anyone who has travelled on the Paris Metro or New York Subway will testify.
    3. Coming before the definite article and an attributive superlative. [from 18th c.]
      • Šablon:RQ:Saki Reginald in Russia
      • 1923 oktobar 8, “The New Pictures”, in Time:
        Scaramouche has already been greeted as the finest French Revolution yet brought to the screen-and even if you are a little weary of seeing a strongly American band of sans-culottes demolish a pasteboard Paris, you should not miss Scaramouche, for it is quite the best thing Rex Ingram has done since The Four Horsemen.
    4. Before a noun preceded by an indefinite article; now often with ironic implications that the noun in question is particularly noteworthy or remarkable. [from 18th c.]
      • 1830, Senate debate, 15 April:
        To debauch the Indians with rum and cheat them of their land was quite a Government affair, and not at all criminal; but to use rum to cheat them of their peltry, was an abomination in the sight of the law.
      • 2011, Gilbert Morris, The Crossing:
        “Looks like you and Clay had quite a party,” she said with a glimmer in her dark blue eyes.
    5. Before a noun preceded by the definite article. [from 18th c.]
      • Šablon:RQ:Trollope Eustace Diamonds
      • 2006 februar 6, Sherman Alexie, “When the story stolen is your own”, in Time:
        His memoir features a child named Tommy Nothing Fancy who suffers from and dies of a seizure disorder. Quite the coincidence, don't you think?
    6. (now rare) With prepositional or adverbial phrases. [from 18th c.]
  4. To a moderate extent or degree; somewhat, rather. [from 19th c.]
    Mind your shoes, the basement is quite wet.
    Sinonim: Thesaurus:moderately
Usage notes
  • This is a non-descriptive qualifier, similar to fairly and rather and somewhat. Used where a plain adjective needs to be modified, but cannot be qualified. When spoken, the meaning can vary with the tone of voice and stress. He was quite big can mean anything from "not exactly small" to "almost huge".
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Jersey Dutch: kwāit
Translations
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Interjection

quite

  1. (chiefly UK) Indicates agreement; exactly so.
    “That's a rather ugly colour for a house, don't you think?” — “Quite.”

Etymology 2

From Španski quite.

Pronunciation

Noun

quite (plural quites)

  1. (bullfighting) A series of passes made with the cape to distract the bull.

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

quite

  1. Šablon:gl-verb form of/error of quitar

Latinski

Verb

quīte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of queō

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latinski quiētus (pronounced in Medieval Latin as quíetus > quitus). Compare the inherited coi.

Adjective

quite m (oblique and nominative feminine singular quite)

  1. free, liberated

Descendants

References

Jezici (2)
Galician • Old French
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Portugalski

Pronunciation

 

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese quite, from Stari Francuski quitte (“free; liberated”), from Latinski quiētus.

Adjective

quite

  1. quit (released from obligation)
  2. settled
  3. divorced
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

quite

  1. Šablon:pt-verb form of/error of quitar

Španski

Pronunciation

  • MFA(ključ): /ˈkite/ [ˈki.t̪e]
  • Rime: -ite
  • Syllabification: qui‧te

Etymology 1

Deverbal from quitar.

Noun

quite m (plural quites)

  1. the action of removal
  2. a swerve or sidestep
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

quite

  1. inflection of quitar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

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