![]() ![]() The adjective quiet often describes something as still, calm, secluded, or making little sound. Immovably, inactively, motionlessly, quietly, still. “Without my dentist’s help, I wouldn’t sleep so quietly.“ My mouth guard allows me to sleep quiet.The adverb quiet (mainly written as “ quietly”) means “in a quiet manner” or “without motion.” Antonymsīustle, clamor, commotion, noise, racket, sound, tumult, turmoil, unrest, uproar. “We would like to keep this on the quiet, if possible.”Ĭalm, calmness, hush, lull, pause, peace, quietness, quietude, repose, serenity, silence, still, stillness, tranquillity.“I appreciate the quiet of the countryside.”.“Is it too much to ask for some peace and quiet ?”.“The children’s roughhousing interrupted my evening quiet.As noted by Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, we use the noun in the phrase “ on the quiet ” to mean “ in secret” or “ in a secret manner.” The mass noun quiet references the quality or state of something with little to no noise, movement, color, chaos, or disturbance. The word quiet appears in English as an adjective, adverb, noun, or verb to reference a quality of calm, silence, or moderation. Especially, exceedingly, extremely, half, halfway, highly, incompletely, part, particularly, partially, partly, surpassingly, very.Īccording to The Oxford English Dictionary, Middle English quite stems from the archaic or “obsolete” adjective quite (a variant of the verb quit).Barely, half, halfway, hardly, incompletely, just, kind of, part, partially, partly, scarcely, slightly.A bit, after a sort, a little, a tad, a touch, enough, fairly, kind of, moderately, more or less, of sorts, pretty, rather, relatively, something, somewhat, sort of, to a degree.All the way, altogether, at length, completely, down to the ground, entirely, exactly, fully, heartily, in whole, perfectly, thoroughly, through and through, to bits, to pieces, to the hilt/max, totally, utterly, well, wholly. ![]() It’s not quite the thing to watch after a hard day’s work.”
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