quits

Meaning of quits

adjective
  1. (of two people) on even terms, especially because a debt or score has been settled.
    I think we're just about quits now, don't you?

late 15th century (in the sense ‘freed from a liability or debt’): perhaps a colloquial abbreviation of medieval Latin quittus, from Latin quietus, used as a receipt (see quietus).

verb, 3rd person present
  1. leave (a place), usually permanently.
    hippies finally quit two sites in Hampshire last night
  2. behave in a specified way.
    quit yourselves like men, and fight

Middle English (in the sense ‘set free’): from Old French quiter (verb), quite (adjective), from Latin quietus, past participle of quiescere ‘be still’, from quies ‘quiet’.

noun, suffix

used in names of various small songbirds found in the Caribbean area, e.g. bananaquit, grassquit.

mid 19th century: probably imitative.

Information about quits

  • The singular form of quits is: quit.
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Hyphenation of quits

quits

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • quits is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

quits synonyms

Meaning go away from:

leave

Meaning leave (a place that one previously occupied):

vacate

Meaning leave or cause the occupants to leave (a place of danger):

evacuate

Meaning cease to support or look after (someone); desert:

abandon

Meaning illegally leave the armed forces:

desert

quits antonyms

Meaning reside or have one's place of business in (a building):

occupy

Anagrams of quits

quist, squit

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