quickest

[ kwik ]

adj.fast, speedy
adj.smart

Antonyms for quickest

Word Origin & History

Old English cwic "living, alive, animate," and figuratively, of mental qualities, "rapid, ready," from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz (cf. Old Saxon and Old Frisian quik, Old Norse kvikr "living, alive," Dutch kwik "lively, bright, sprightly," Old High German quec "lively," German keck "bold"), from PIE root *gweie- "to live" (see bio-). Sense of "lively, swift" developed by late 12c., on notion of "full of life."

Of persons, "mentally active," from late 15c. Also in Middle English used of soft soils, gravel pits, etc. where the ground is shifting and yielding (mid-14c., cf. quicksand). As an adverb from c.1300. To be quick about something is from 1937. Quick buck is from 1946, American English. Quick-change artist (1886) originally was an actor expert in playing different roles in the same performance of a show. Quick-witted is from 1520s.

Example Sentences forquickest

It's the easiest and quickest way out of the trouble for us, and the easiest and quickest way into trouble for them.

He followed a youth who was the quickest afoot and the readiest laugher.

It would be the quickest way of rejoining them, to get upon the white bull's back.

Nor are we right in supposing that the swiftest of them is the slowest, nor conversely, that the slowest is the quickest.

Hard words were the kindest in the end, because the quickest understood.

“It was the quickest dodge for getting him away from that tray,” he explained.

"You took the quickest, most sensible course, Ackerman," said he.

Lennon barely saved himself by the quickest of side-stepping.

The quickest way to the subconscious is through self-hypnosis.

Reuben, however, was slightly the quickest, and this saved his life.