Quite Quiet

Time for a rant – this has bugged me for ages and I feel I have to say this, sorry:

I have seen multitudes of people on this forum getting the two words ‘quite’ and ‘quiet’ mixed up. In some people’s cases it is a consistent usage and not just a typo. A typo is understandable and forgivable, as is also if English isn’t your first language. But in many cases this is not the matter. It seems to be a widespread and fundamentally consistent mistake with some people that keeps cropping up.

Differentiate between the two words and their meanings, please:
QUIET – adjective, meaning with little or no sound, free from disturbance or vigorous activity, silent, subdued
QUITE – adverb meaning completely, somewhat, really, actually (as an answer), ie “quite a few” = a considerable number, etc.

So, those who constantly mixed up quite and quiet, please quit it 🙂