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quite

/kwahyt/US // kwaɪt //UK // (kwaɪt) //

颇为,颇具,颇有,蛮

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : completely, wholly, or entirely: quite the reverse; not quite finished.
    • : actually, really, or truly: quite a sudden change.
    • : to a considerable extent or degree: quite small; quite objectionable.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adv.completely

Examples

  • None of these, though, has inspired quite the same backlash as fluoride.

  • The benefits of incumbency are quite potent, especially in the all-important area of raising campaign funds.

  • The media tend to frame situations like this as aberrations, but in this case, quite the opposite is the truth.

  • You have to acknowledge your age and position in life, for me quite a lot of those emotionally fueled songs were hormone songs.

  • But quite unlike the schmuck, and this is the fun part, they never run up the white flag; indeed quite the opposite.

  • Mrs. Wurzel was quite right; they had been supplied, regardless of cost, from Messrs. Rochet and Stole's well-known establishment.

  • She is quite true, but not wise, and your left hand must not know what your right hand is doing.

  • Solely over one man therein thou hast quite absolute control.

  • And furthermore, I imagine something else about this—quite unlike the old Bible—I imagine all of it periodically revised.

  • Sometimes the stems are quite bare; on other occasions they are partly branched; in any case the branches are short.