(adj): vs. slow) -- (acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly
(adj): hurried and brief
(adj): vs. unhurried) -- (moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste
(adj): moving quickly and lightly
(adj): vs. inactive) -- (characterized by energetic activity
(adj): apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity
(adj): vs. unintelligent) -- (having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree
(adj): performed with little or no delay
(adj): vs. slow) -- (acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly
(adj): easily aroused or excited
(adj): vs. unexcitable) -- (easily excited
(n): any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)
(n): a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve
(adv): with little or no delay
As she mused the pitiful vision of her mother's life laid its spell on the very quick of her being ...James Joyce
As she mused the pitiful vision of her mother's life laid its spell on the very quick of her being ...James Joyce
alive, as the quick and the dead, or as cut to the quick
Contronymic in the sense: fleet vs. fixed center.