wholly or completely
not quite all
I'm quite sure
positively or certainly
It's quite the best I've seen
more than usually; rather
It took quite a while
That was quite some party!
chiefly Brit to only a moderate degree
quite good but not perfect
quite so
used to express agreement
Middle English, from quite: see quit2. From its original 14th-cent. meaning ‘completely’, used chiefly with verbs to signify the completion of an action, in the 18th cent. quite acquired the additional, weaker sense ‘actually’, ‘really’: the widow, quite charmed with her new lodger – Henry Fielding. By a further almost imperceptible process, in the mid-19th cent. the even weaker sense ‘rather’, ‘fairly’ developed