quite
pronunciation
How to pronounce quite in British English:
UK [kwaɪt]
How to pronounce quite in American English:
US [kwaɪt]
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- Adverb:
- to a degree (not used with a negative)
- to the greatest extent; completely
- of an unusually noticeable or exceptional or remarkable kind (not used with a negative)
- actually or truly or to an extreme
Word Origin
- quite
- quite: [14] Quite is essentially the same word as the adjective quit ‘free, absolved, discharged, cleared’ (which in Middle English commonly took the alternative form quite). It came to be used as an adverb meaning ‘thoroughly, clearly’. The weaker modern sense ‘fairly’ did not develop until as recently as the mid-19th century.=> quit
- quite (adv.)
- early 14c., adverbial form of Middle English quit, quite (adj.) "free, clear" (see quit (adj.)). Originally "thoroughly;" the weaker sense of "fairly" is attested from mid-19c.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Rose is quite mad about andy .
- 2. Gilbert was therefore not quite right .
- 3. The poll data sound quite right .
- 4. Quite the opposite : the sector is still growing .
- 5. That is quite an inheritance to have squandered .