quite
IPA: kwˈaɪt
noun
- (bullfighting) A series of passes made with the cape to distract the bull.
adverb
- To the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely.
- With verbs, especially past participles.
- With prepositional phrases and spatial adverbs.
- With predicative adjectives.
- With attributive adjectives, following an (especially indefinite) article; chiefly as expressing contrast, difference etc.
- Preceding nouns introduced by the indefinite article. Chiefly in negative constructions.
- With adverbs of manner.
- In a fully justified sense; truly, perfectly, actually.
- Coming before the indefinite article and an attributive adjective. (Now largely merged with moderative senses, below.)
- With plain adjectives, past participles, and adverbs.
- Coming before the definite article and an attributive superlative.
- Before a noun preceded by an indefinite article; now often with ironic implications that the noun in question is particularly noteworthy or remarkable.
- Before a noun preceded by the definite article.
- (now rare) With prepositional or adverbial phrases.
- To a moderate extent or degree; somewhat, rather.
Examples of "quite" in Sentences
- Quite the gentleman, quite the lady.
- I'm not quite that much of a masochist.
- Much of the information is quite specious.
- Much of the text is written quite subjectively.
- But you hoped, not quite so soon -- not _quite_ so soon.
- "But you look quite well -- _quite_ well," she insisted.
- The basement is quite extensive and quite eerie in places.
- The hydranth much exceed the hydrothecae in size and are quite sturdy.
- But the price is quite high at the moment and the market rather volatile.
- The bulldog section is quite inadequate and rather botched at the moment.
- The school building is quite antiquated, and the corridors are quite narrow.
- When he leaves us my heart will quite, _quite_ break -- and I sometimes hope
- Could we pick something that doesn't sound quite so much like bilious, please
- Yvonne do my hair quite, _quite_ plainly, and I'm giving my jewels to my country.
- In this sense, the saying would be quite correct, as it is _quite wrong_ when applied to aesthetic facts.
- Bashbang_ will certainly quite _quite_ eclipse those two other sensations, _What a Buttons Overheard in the Imperial Pickelhaube
- 'My dear (mimicked Trix), you can be quite polite to so and so, but I cannot have you becoming friendly with them, you know they are not _quite_.'
- He was so clever, so distinguished, he had his eyes and his voice and his whole self so perfectly under control, that she never could be quite, _quite_ sure -- but now!
- Once or twice she said that though "Frank was adamant" when she had wished to get closer in touch with his interests and sympathies when he was quite a young man, yet she was always _quite_ in sympathy with her eldest son.
- Heads, necks and arms don't monopolise the pretty-pretties now, and, what with jewelled tunics, girdles, shoes, stockings and "_Honi soits_," as well as gems on what little corsage and skirt one may be wearing, one's jewel-box may be quite _quite_ emptied every evening.