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quite

Такође погледајте:quité
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Galician •Old French
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Енглески

Систем

ен+нг=енг



Alternative forms

Etymology 1

A development ofquit, influence byAnglo-Normanquite. For an analogous semantic development from the same root, compareЈерменскиշատ(šat).

Pronunciation

Adverb

quite (notcomparable)

  1. To thegreatest extent or degree;completely,entirely.
    Синоними:very,absolutely,fully,thoroughly,totally,utterly,Thesaurus:completely
    1. With verbs, especially past participles.[from 14th c.]
      • 1590,Edmund Spenser,The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [byJohn Wolfe] forVVilliam Ponsonbie,→OCLC, book I, canto VIII, stanza 49,page118:
        Thus when they had the witch diſrobedquight, / And all her filthy feature open ſhowne, / They let her goe at will, and wander waies vnknowne.
      • 2005 октобар 4, Adrian Searle,The Guardian:
        Nobuyoshi Araki has been called a monster, a pornographer and a genius—and the photographerquite agrees.
    2. With prepositional phrases and spatial adverbs.[from 15th c.]
      • 1891,Thomas Nelson Page,On Newfound River:
        Margaret passedquite 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.
      • 2010 октобар 30, Joanna Briscoe,The Guardian:
        Religion and parochial etiquette are probed to reveal unhealthy, and sometimes shockingly violent, internal desiresquite at odds with the surface life of a town in which tolerance is preached.
    3. With predicative adjectives.[from 15th c.]
    4. With attributive adjectives, following an (especially indefinite)article; chiefly as expressing contrast, difference etc.[from 16th c.]
      • 2003,Richard Dawkins,A Devil's Chaplain:
        When I warned him that his words might be offensive to identical twins, he said that identical twins were aquite different case.
      • 2011 септембар 18, Peter Preston,The Observer:
        Create a new,quite separate, private company – say Murdoch Newspaper Holdings – and give it all, or most of, the papers that News Corp owns.
    5. Preceding nouns introduced by the indefinite article. Chiefly in negative constructions.[from 16th c.]
    6. With adverbs ofmanner.[from 17th c.]
      • 2009, John F. Schmutz,The Battle of the Crater: A complete history:
        However, the proceedings werequite carefully orchestrated to produce what seemed to be a predetermined outcome.
      • 2011 октобар 18, Bob Burgess,The Guardian:
        Higher education institutions in the UK are,quite rightly, largely autonomous.
  2. In a fully justified sense;truly,perfectly,actually.
    1. Coming before the indefinite article and an attributive adjective. (Now largely merged with moderative senses, below.)[from 17th c.]
      • 1898,Charles Garvice,Nell of Shorne Mills:
        "My little plot has been rather successful, after all, hasn't it?" "Quite a perfect success," said Drake.
      • 2001 фебруар 7, Paul Brown,The Guardian:
        While the government claims to lead the world with its plans to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the figures tellquite a different story.
    2. With plain adjectives, past participles, and adverbs.[from 18th c.]
      • Шаблон:RQ:Ferguson Zollenstein
      • 2010 новембар 5, Dave Hill,The Guardian:
        London Underground isquite unique in how many front line staff it has, as anyone who has travelled on the Paris Metro or New York Subway will testify.
    3. Coming before the definite article and an attributive superlative.[from 18th c.]
      • Шаблон:RQ:Saki Reginald in Russia
      • 1923 октобар 8, “The New Pictures”, inTime:
        Scaramouche has already been greeted as the finest French Revolution yet brought to the screen-and even if you are a little weary of seeing a strongly American band of sans-culottes demolish a pasteboard Paris, you should not miss Scaramouche, for it isquite the best thing Rex Ingram has done since The Four Horsemen.
    4. Before a noun preceded by an indefinite article; now often with ironic implications that the noun in question is particularly noteworthy or remarkable.[from 18th c.]
      • 1830, Senate debate, 15 April:
        To debauch the Indians with rum and cheat them of their land wasquite a Government affair, and not at all criminal; but to use rum to cheat them of their peltry, was an abomination in the sight of the law.
      • 2011, Gilbert Morris,The Crossing:
        “Looks like you and Clay hadquite a party,” she said with a glimmer in her dark blue eyes.
    5. Before a noun preceded by the definite article.[from 18th c.]
      • Шаблон:RQ:Trollope Eustace Diamonds
      • 2006 фебруар 6, Sherman Alexie, “When the story stolen is your own”, inTime:
        His memoir features a child named Tommy Nothing Fancy who suffers from and dies of a seizure disorder.Quite the coincidence, don't you think?
    6. (now rare)With prepositional or adverbial phrases.[from 18th c.]
  4. To amoderate extent or degree;somewhat,rather.[from 19th c.]
    Mind your shoes, the basement isquite wet.
    Синоним:Thesaurus:moderately
Usage notes
  • This is anon-descriptive qualifier, similar tofairly andrather andsomewhat. Used where a plain adjective needs to be modified, but cannot be qualified. When spoken, the meaning can vary with the tone of voice and stress.He wasquite big can mean anything from "not exactly small" to "almost huge".
Derived terms
 
Descendants
Translations
to the greatest extent; completely
in a fully justified sense; truly
to a moderate extent
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Interjection

quite

  1. (chiefly UK)Indicates agreement; exactly so.
    “That's a rather ugly colour for a house, don't you think?” — “Quite.”

Etymology 2

FromШпанскиquite.

Pronunciation

Noun

quite (pluralquites)

  1. (bullfighting) A series ofpasses made with the cape to distract thebull.

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

quite

  1. Шаблон:gl-verb form of/error ofquitar

Латински

Verb

quīte

  1. second-personpluralpresentactiveimperative ofqueō

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed fromЛатинскиquiētus (pronounced inMedieval Latin asquíetus > quitus). Compare the inheritedcoi.

Adjective

quite m (oblique and nominative feminine singularquite)

  1. free,liberated

Descendants

References

Језици (2)
Galician •Old French
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Португалски

Pronunciation

 

Etymology 1

FromOld Galician-Portuguesequite, fromСтари Францускиquitte(“free; liberated”), fromЛатинскиquiētus.

Adjective

quite

  1. quit(released from obligation)
  2. settled
  3. divorced
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

quite

  1. Шаблон:pt-verb form of/error ofquitar

Шпански

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Deverbal fromquitar.

Noun

quite m (pluralquites)

  1. the action ofremoval
  2. aswerve orsidestep
Derived terms
 

Etymology 2

Verb

quite

  1. inflection ofquitar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

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