Define "Quite"

[ColinJ]

Quite, meaning yes that is correct, or, Quite, meaning nearly or thereabouts.

Or Quite (a few), meaning actually rather more than that!

 

[rich p]

I played deck quites once and quoit enjoyed it.

 

[ventoux50]

If you're dyslexic it means - silent.





I'll get me coat.

 

[PK99]

It means almost a few but not quite.

Not quite: Quite a few is more than a few - at least in Lancastrian understatement

 

[661-Pete]

It scores 72 in Scrabble, if you can get it on the Triple Word with the Q on Double Letter....

 

[soulful dog]

Quite literally?

Ouch, it's just got sorer!

 

[Arch]

In proper English, it means 'a little bit', or 'moderately'
In Canadian English it means 'very'.

A friend of mine, having camped outside Kirkwall hospital in order to spend all day every day for a week with a sick Canadian girlfriend, fetching her every whim, nearly left her when she was asked if he'd been looking after her and she said "yes, quite well".

 

[beanzontoast]

How about the meaning of quite in a sentence such as: "Quite what the dog was chewing, it was hard to tell." ?

 

[661-Pete]

What about its meaning in music?
(rummages for score of Beethoven's Appassionata, which is marked Allegro Assai literally 'Quite quick'):

It's that fourth line of semiquavers that does for me. 'Quite', indeed!

 

[Brains]

Down in Cornwall a 'Quite' is a wood, there are lots of places called names like 'Pen Quite' and Black Quite

 

[TVC]

Quite is a word you use like 'very' as in the phrase

"This thread is quite entertaining, but not very"

 

[steve52]

how long is a peice of string? unknown untill mesuerd, the defintion depends on its use? or am i wrong again ( i often am) please excuse the spelling im trying my best)

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

how long is a peice of string? unknown untill mesuerd, the defintion depends on its use? or am i wrong again ( i often am) please excuse the spelling im trying my best)

Yes, I just had a look in the Collins Cobuild dictionary and it lists 5 distinct uses for /quite/ depending on the context.

 

[barney5286]

Absolutely!

 

[surfdude]

Down in Cornwall a 'Quite' is a wood, there are lots of places called names like 'Pen Quite' and Black Quite

koes means wood in cornish