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# quite

«quite» in Mova's school dictionary: **fairly, more than a little but not very: quite good** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

1) Quite means fairly, more than a little but not very: quite good. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quite/#m1)

2) Quite means completely, fully: I'm not quite ready. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quite/#m2)

3) «Not quite» means almost but not right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quite/#m3)

4) «Quite a» means a lot of, or very: quite a crowd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quite/#m4)

### 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

- Not quite: 3. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quite/#x1)
- Not quite. Look at the word «each». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quite/#x2)
- I'm not quite finished yet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quite/#x3)
- The film was quite funny. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quite/#x4)
- There were quite a few people at the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quite/#x5)
- You are quite right! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quite/#x6)
- It is quite cold today, so take a jumper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quite/#x7)
- That was quite a long walk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quite/#x8)
- He was quite a practical boy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quite/#x9)

### 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

- [A miscarriage is when a baby stops growing and dies early in pregnancy; it happens quite often and is nobody's fault.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/18/)
- [Chatbots are trained to be pleasant: "Great question!" they say, even when you asked something quite ordinary.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily/0/)
- [Bats are not blind; all bats can see, and many see quite well.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/153-are-bats-blind/4/)
- [Dried tardigrades survive great cold, high pressure and radiation, but they are not immortal, and active tardigrades are quite fragile.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/259-the-microscopic-world-tardigrades-mites-plankton-and-other-tiny-creatures/7/)
- [It quite makes my forehead ache!»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/33/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «quite» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quite/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.