Usually means: To a moderate or considerable degree.
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  1. quite: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. quite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. quite: Collins English Dictionary
  5. quite: Vocabulary.com
  6. Quite, quite: Wordnik
  7. quite: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. quite: Wiktionary
  9. quite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. quite: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. quite: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Quite, quite: Dictionary.com
  13. quite: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. quite: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Quite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. quite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. quite: Rhymezone
  18. quite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. quite: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. quite: Free Dictionary
  21. quite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. quite: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. quite, quite: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  To the greatest extent or degree; completely, entirely.
adverb:  With verbs, especially past participles.
adverb:  With prepositional phrases and spatial adverbs.
adverb:  With predicative adjectives.
adverb:  With attributive adjectives, following an (especially indefinite) article; chiefly as expressing contrast, difference etc.
adverb:  Preceding nouns introduced by the indefinite article. Chiefly in negative constructions.
adverb:  With adverbs of manner.
adverb:  In a fully justified sense; truly, perfectly, actually.
adverb:  Coming before the indefinite article and an attributive adjective. (Now largely merged with moderative senses, below.)
adverb:  With plain adjectives, past participles, and adverbs.
adverb:  Coming before the definite article and an attributive superlative.
adverb:  Before a noun preceded by an indefinite article; now often with ironic implications that the noun in question is particularly noteworthy or remarkable.
adverb:  Before a noun preceded by the definite article.
adverb:  (now rare) With prepositional or adverbial phrases.
adverb:  To a moderate extent or degree; somewhat, rather.
noun:  (bullfighting) A series of passes made with the cape to distract the bull.

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