Word Meanings - QUIESCENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not sounded; silent; as, y is quiescent in "day" and "say." (more info) 1. Being in a state of repose; at rest; still; not moving; as, a quiescent body or fluid. 2. Not ruffed with passion; unagitated; not in action; not excited; quiet; dormant;

Additional info about word: QUIESCENT

Not sounded; silent; as, y is quiescent in "day" and "say." (more info) 1. Being in a state of repose; at rest; still; not moving; as, a quiescent body or fluid. 2. Not ruffed with passion; unagitated; not in action; not excited; quiet; dormant; resting. In times of national security, the feeling of patriotism . . . is so quiescent that it seems hardly to exist. Prof. Wilson.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of QUIESCENT)

• Dormant
• Sleeping
• slumbering
• latent
• undeveloped
• quiescent
• inert
• Fallow
• Quiescent
• idle
• uncultivated
• unproductive
• untilled
• Passive
• Inactive
• unresisting
• unquestioning
• negative
• enduring
• patient
• Stagnant
• Motionless
• currentless
• tideless
• unflowing
• uncirculating
• still
• dull
• torpid
• lifeless
• Stationary
• Fixed
• Immovable
• motionless
• unalterable

Related words: (words related to QUIESCENT)

• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• LIFELESS
  Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• NEGATIVE
  Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition. (more info) 1. Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing
• SLUMBERY
  Sleepy. Chaucer.
• ENDURANT
  Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.
• UNFLOWER
  To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.
• SLEEPWALKER
  One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
• FALLOW
  Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch , a small European bird, the wheatear . See Wheatear. (more info) vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith.
• NEGATIVENESS; NEGATIVITY
  The quality or state of being negative.
• PASSIVE FLIGHT
  Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
• STATIONARY
  1. Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed. Charles Wesley, who is a more stationary man, does not believe the story. Southey. 2. Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.
• STILLSTAND
  A standstill. Shak.
• UNRESISTED
  1. Not resisted; unopposed. Bentley. 2. Resistless; as, unresisted fate. Pope.
• STILLING
  A stillion.
• ENDUREMENT
  Endurance. South.
• INERTIA
  That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; - - sometimes called vis inertiæ. 2. Inertness;
• PATIENTLY
  In a patient manner. Cowper.
• FIXTURE
  Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person
• COMPATIENT
  Suffering or enduring together. Sir G. Buck.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• OVERPATIENT
  Patient to excess.
• OMNIPATIENT
  Capable of enduring all things. Carlyle.
• INSTILL
  To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
• AFFIX
  figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
• PISTILLIFEROUS
  Pistillate.
• DEFIX
  To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
• OUT-PATIENT
  A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it.
• AFFIXION
  Affixture. T. Adams.
• DISTILLABLE
  Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
• DISTILLATION
  The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible
• FINESTILLER
  One who finestills.