quiet

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In the fields beyond the houses the quiet was absolute.

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  1. adjective Making little or no noise: quiet neighbors; a quiet engine.
  2. adjective Free of loud noise; hushed: a quiet street.
  3. adjective Calm and unmoving; still: a quiet lake.

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  • His strategy was to force the county to file what's known as a quiet title action against him rather than him spending the money to initiate the action, according to Moses. —  Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories
  • That is because Mr. Hewlett, known as a quiet gray-haired man to those who had offices in his north London office block, died
  • Meyer Lansky, known as a quiet gangster who kept his wife and children away from the business, proves just the opposite. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Pulgarin said he later realized that there were other vans that had also been vandalized when he saw police investigating othe graffiti on vehicles on what he described as a quiet block. —  Latest News
  • Woodstock has often been described as a quiet, sleepy, little town in the past, but for some reason many articles have appeared in the Sentinel Review in the past few years that paint a different picture; not merely the difficulty of coping with change or a few ruffled feathers, but one of genuine friction and discontent, a disconnect between the citizens and those elected to administer the town's affairs. —  Liblogs.ca latest blog entries
 

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taciturn · omertà · whisht · uisht · wheesht · shush vs shh · hist · hush · shush. · shush · shhh.

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silent ·  calm ·  pleasant ·  happy

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quiet:   quieter ·  quieted ·  quieting
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin quiētus, past participle of quiēscere, to rest; see kweiə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English quiet, quyet = Old French quiet, quiete, quite, vernacularly quoi, coi (later English coy), French coi = Provencal quetz = Spanish Portuguese quieto, vernacularly chedo = Italian quieto, vernacularly queto, from Latin quietus, past participle of quiescere, keep quiet, rest; cf. quies (quiet-), quiet, rest: see quiesce, quiet, n. Cf. coy, a doublet of quiet, and quit, quite, acquit, requite, etc.
  2. from Middle English quiete, quyete = Spanish quiete = Italian quiete, from Latin quies (quiet-), rest; cf. quiet, adjective
  3. from Late Latin quietare, quietari, make quiet, from Latin quietus, quiet: see quiet, adjective Cf. quit, v.
 

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