quite
part of speech
adverb
meaning for a pupil
1) Quite means fairly, more than a little but not very: quite good. tree →
2) Quite means completely, fully: I'm not quite ready. tree →
3) «Not quite» means almost but not right. tree →
4) «Quite a» means a lot of, or very: quite a crowd. tree →
sense in the lessons
in «not quite» = not right yet (the teacher's mark of a wrong answer); in everyday life «quite good», «quite a few» (many), «quite right» (fully right); British speakers often use «quite» to mean «fairly», Americans often to mean «very»
examples
- Are we not accounted by him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our price. (Torah GEN.31.15, JPS 1917) tree →
- Copyright infringement liability can be quite severe. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- Quite recently, and since the completion of my translation, my attention has been drawn to a version by Isidor Kalisch, in which he has reproduced many of the valuable annotations of Meyer. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- Thy bow is made quite bare; sworn are the rods of the word. (Prophets HAB.3.9, JPS 1917) tree →
- Is it that I have no help in me, and that sound wisdom is driven quite from me? (Writings JOB.6.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- Then Joab came to the king, and said: 'What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone? (Prophets 2SA.3.24, JPS 1917) tree →
- Not quite: 3. tree →
- Not quite. Look at the word «each». tree →
- I'm not quite finished yet. tree →
- The film was quite funny. tree →
- There were quite a few people at the park. tree →
- You are quite right! tree →
- It is quite cold today, so take a jumper. tree →
- That was quite a long walk. tree →
- He was quite a practical boy. tree →
note
Marks a wrong answer; no operation clue. Trap: «quite a few» means many, not few. Do not mix «quite» (fairly) with «quiet» (with little noise): the letters are close.
In the corpora
- Are we not accounted by him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our price.
- Thy bow is made quite bare; sworn are the rods of the word.
- Is it that I have no help in me, and that sound wisdom is driven quite from me?
- A miscarriage is when a baby stops growing and dies early in pregnancy; it happens quite often and is nobody's fault.
- Chatbots are trained to be pleasant: "Great question!" they say, even when you asked something quite ordinary.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «quite» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.