"It gets quite cold here in winters." What kind of adverb is the word 'quite'?

The part of a sentence that speaks about the action of the noun is known as the verb. On the other hand, the words that give more information about the verb are known as adverbs. Adverbs can be of several types, depending upon the function they perform. In the sentence given in this question, the word 'quite' is an adverb or an adverb of degree to be more precise as it answers the question of "how much?".