tranquil
English
WOTD – 17 October 2009
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French tranquille, from Latin tranquillus.
Adjective
tranquil (comparative tranquiler, superlative tranquilest)
- Free from emotional or mental disturbance.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, chapter XXVIII
- Some time passed before I felt tranquil even here: I had a vague dread that wild cattle might be near, or that some sportsman or poacher might discover me.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, chapter XXVIII
- Calm; without motion or sound.
- 1921, Douglas Wilson Johnson, Battlefields of the World War, Western and Southern Fronts: A Study in Military Geography, page 262:
- […] that the streams which did form were clear and tranquil because fed by perennial springs from the underground supply; and that in their tranquil waters extensive peat bogs formed.
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Synonyms
Antonyms
- (free from emotional disturbance): agitated
Related terms
Translations
free from emotional disturbance
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calm; without motion or sound
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Catalan
Etymology
From Latin tranquillus.
Adjective
tranquil (feminine tranquil·la, masculine plural tranquils, feminine plural tranquil·les)
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Further reading
- “tranquil” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “tranquil” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “tranquil” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “tranquil” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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