Quite Meaning
/kwaɪt/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
advTo the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely.
advTo the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely., With verbs, especially past participles.
Sentence Examples
Well, the night is quite long, isn't it?
It's quite difficult to master French in 2 or 3 years.
I was quite shocked when I found out what he'd done.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The movie was ____ good, but not the best one I've seen this year.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The results were ____ impressive, exceeding the targets set at the beginning of the year.
Word Origin & History
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).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 49, page 118:
"Nobuyoshi Araki has been called a monster, a pornographer and a genius—and the photographer quite agrees."
— 2005 October 4, Adrian Searle, The Guardian:
"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."
— 1891, Thomas Nelson Page, On Newfound River:
"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."
— 2010 October 30, Joanna Briscoe, The Guardian:
"El adrea was quite dead. No more will he slink silently upon his unsuspecting prey."
— 1915 December 4 – 1916 January 8, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter V, in The Son of Tarzan, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published March 1917, →OCLC, pages 66–67:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The movie was ____ good, but not the best one I've seen this year.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The results were ____ impressive, exceeding the targets set at the beginning of the year.