He's a good kid - very quick on the uptake and he does whatever needs to be done.
Source: tatoeba (288941)
Uptake
//ˈʌpteɪk//
Synonyms for "uptake" (4 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (1)
Strong matches (1)
Noun(1 words)
Related words (2)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
5 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived
4 entriesderived from
2 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
13 entriesTranslations
9 translations across 4 languages.
Hungarian
2 entries- felszívódás noun (absorption)
- felvétel noun (absorption)
Italian
1 entries- assorbimento noun (absorption)
Romanian
1 entries- absorbție noun (absorption)
Spanish
4 entries- absorbencia noun (absorption)
- absorbimiento noun (absorption)
- absorción noun (absorption)
- captación noun (absorption)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Sometimes Markku is a bit slow on the uptake.
Source: tatoeba (2514082)
A clever man is always quick in the uptake.
Source: tatoeba (2942437)
Tom is a little slow on the uptake.
Source: tatoeba (3414963)
Showing 4 of 12 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.