quit

Other forms of quit

past tense or participle

quitted

present participle

quitting

third person

quits·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about quit

What does quit mean?

quit means "put an end to a state or an activity". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quit?

quit has 1 syllable: quit. In IPA it is /ˈkwɪt/.

What is another word for quit?

Close synonyms include discontinue, stop, cease, give up, lay off. 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 quit a common word?

quit is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with quit?

1 word rhymes with quit. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.