quick study

1. 1.

   someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily

   “she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge”

   Synonymssponge

   Broaderlearner

Questions about quick study

What does quick study mean?

quick study means "someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily".

What is another word for quick study?

Close synonyms include sponge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is quick study a common word?

quick study is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.