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Your examples are excellent but I agree with the GP that "quite" can also be used in the sense of "somewhat but not entirely".


Quite difficult = Not impossible.

So, completely difficult. But completely difficult doesn't sound quite right, probably as less syllables are preferred over many unless there's a quite good reason to prefer the latter.




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