quality
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9.9
- adjective
- /ˈkwɑːləti/
- Archaic
:
noble
- He was a father figure and a quality person, not necessarily a brilliant entrepreneur.
Examples
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We built a system that gave us very high-quality white-collar and technical elites, and I think it still gives us the best white-collar and technical employees in the world.
Academic text (1990) -
This is a quality clientele.
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You are quality and if you are a high value man, not one woman will turn you down, right?
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Women: get married young to a quality male and have kids.
Blog text (17) -
Now these were quality men.
Blog text (3) -
I think the typical academic's response to your last sentence would be a haughty sniff followed by the question, "But are they QUALITY people?"
Blog text (6) -
This is quality clientele.
Fiction book (1992) -
This, in my opinion, is the core component of a holistic and quality education, which the Nigerian system did not provide to me and my peers.
Blog text (6) -
Herman Cain, Alan West, Allen Keyes, JC Watts, or Condi Rice all are quality people with moral values and intelligence that far surpass Obama's.
Blog text (16) -
The royal family is known for its quality heritage and noble history.
Synonyms
128
4.4
Being from a high social family by birth
116
5.6
People respect it for high quality or important achievements
20
5.8
Showing elegant, expensive style that makes someone seem richer or more important
8
3.7
Very good quality and better than most others
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7.4
A person from a noble or wealthy family with polite, refined manners
Antonyms
Compounds
103
3.4
How good a person's life feels because of their health, culture, and where they live, not money
- Specialized
24
3.1
A process that checks and tests products to keep them at the correct standard
- Specialized
The total money a company spends to make sure products are good and to fix problems when they are not
- Specialized
Total money a company spends to make products or services work well and fix problems
- Specialized
An unstable electricity supply that causes sudden rises or drops in power
How Noble
Surface Forms
Etymology
The adjective quality comes from qualis 'of what kind', and in older use it described people of noble or high kind. So a 'quality' family meant a family of high social rank.