Quick and Slow

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Quick adjective - Having or showing the ability to respond without delay or hesitation.

Usage example: she's a quick wit, always ready with a pun or joke when the moment calls for one

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Slow is an antonym for quick in topics: fast, smart.

Nearby Words: quicken, quickly, quickness, quickie

Slow adjective - Moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speed.

Usage example: slow readers

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Quick is an antonym for slow in topics: unhurried, stupid, fast, unintelligent, behind.

Nearby Words: slowness, slowed, slowly, slowing, slowdown

The survivors also note that their catastrophe isn't particularly cosy except compared to the slow or quick deaths of almost everybody else.

Source: Cosy Catastrophe
Banks's The Algebraist has (most) of the species of the galaxy divided up into two groups: the slow and the quick.

Source: We Are as Mayflies
For example, Fever's Air Rally characters are Baxter and Forthington, whereas the PAL version retains the original Japanese names of Quick and Slow.

Source: Video Game / Rhythm Heaven

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