quick

quick
I (discerning) adjective acute, adept, adroit, agile, aggressive, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, deft, dexterous, discerning, educable, educatable, fiery, instructable, intelligent, irascible, irritable, keen, nimble-fingered, of ready intelligence, peppery, sagacious, schoolable, sharp, skillful, snappish, teachable, trainable II (fleeting) adjective active, artful, born, brief, caducous, cursory, deft, elusive, ephemeral, evanescent, expeditious, express, facile, fast, fleet, fleeting, frisky, hasty, hurried, immediate, impermanent, impulsive, instant, instantaneous, meteoric, momentary, nimble, passing, perfunctory, perishable, perspicacious, precipitate, proficient, prompt, rapid, ready, short-lived, speedy, spirited, sudden, summary, swift, temporary, transient, transitory, vivacious, volatile, wide-awake III index alert (agile), artful, born (alive), brief, cursory, deft, expeditious, facile, immediate (at once), impulsive (rash), instantaneous, live (conscious), perfunctory, perspicacious, precipitate, proficient, prompt, rapid, ready (prepared), summary, volatile

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006


quick
adj.
Alive.

The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. . 2008.

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