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quite adverb [not gradable] (VERY)

quite adverb [not gradable] (COMPLETELY)

quite adverb [not gradable] (REALLY)

(Definition of quite from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of quite

quite

Eight building phases on a single farmyard are exceptional, but three or four overlapping ground plans are quite common.

It is quite clear then that an artificial frame of some kind does not exclude the possibility of an organic development.

After all, these regulations were promulgated quite late.

It is clear that some quite abstract robot representations have usefully tested some quite specific biological hypotheses.

Some fences have been replaced and moved compared to older maps, but it is still quite easy to recognize the localities from former studies.

Results for this grouping were quite similar to those reported above.

The situation is, however, quite different in the random setting.

Second, she shows that the notion that merchant families survived for three successive generations was quite rare.

The average expresses both the moderate quality of the studies and a quite critical attitude to the music teaching received.

Imports of raw cotton only gradually took up the slack-and then only in quite erratic fashion.

However, there are quite a few pairs of systems for which the families of minimal cut sets cannot be ordered.

The concept of the tachyon does not violate the principles of special relativity, and they are quite a simple theoretical construct.

The book is quite valuable for touching on so many relevant themes.

The method is quite straightforward and is being further developed.

They found these thresholds to be quite poor in newborns, and substantially immature at the oldest age they tested.

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