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quite

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"Fairly"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /kwaɪt/Part of speech adverbSorted eiqtuStarts with QEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Fairly, rather, completely, or to a notable degree.

Word origin

A development of quit, influence by Anglo-Norman quite. Doublet of coy, quit, quiet, and quietus. For an analogous semantic development from the same root, compare Armenian շատ (šat).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • Nobuyoshi Araki has been called a monster, a pornographer and a genius—and the photographer quite agrees.
  • 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.

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