Definition of Quite

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Definition of Quite

Quite

See Quit.

Completely; wholly; entirely; totally; perfectly; as, the work is not quite done; the object is quite accomplished; to be quite mistaken.

To a great extent or degree; very; very much; considerably.

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Quite Quotations

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Warren Buffett

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
Winston Churchill

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Winston Churchill

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. Lewis

Women are quite capable of entering into a friendship with a man, but to keep it going that takes a little physical antipathy as well.
Friedrich Nietzsche

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
Bill Gates

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
Henry David Thoreau

All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Oscar Wilde

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Oscar Wilde

Quite Translations

quite in Afrikaans is baie
quite in Dutch is erg, bijster
quite in Finnish is sangen
quite in German is ziemliche, recht/ganz/ziemlich, ziemlich
quite in Latin is per
quite in Norwegian is javisst, ganske, helt
quite in Spanish is muy
quite in Swedish is helt, ganska, stilla, alldeles

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