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QUICK STUDY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does quick study mean?
• QUICK STUDY (noun)
The noun QUICK STUDY has 1 sense:
1. someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily
Familiarity information: QUICK STUDY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
quick study; sponge
Context example:
she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge
Hypernyms ("quick study" is a kind of...):
assimilator; learner; scholar (someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs)
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