quite

adverb
kwīt

To the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely.

Other meanings

With verbs, especially past participles.
With prepositional phrases and spatial adverbs.

Synonyms

rather

Example sentences

“You've talked about this quite a few times.”
Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0
“The blade was quite dull.”
Tatoeba · ddnktr · CC0
“It's not quite time yet.”
Tatoeba · Miktsoanit · CC0

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “quite” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.