Quiescent

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Quiescent \Qui*es"cent\, n. (Gram.)
     A silent letter. --M. Stuart.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Quiescent \Qui*es"cent\, a. [L. quiescens, -entis, p. pr. of
     quiescere: cf. F. quiescent. See {Quiesce}.]
     1. Being in a state of repose; at rest; still; not moving;
        as, a quiescent body or fluid.
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     2. Not ruffed with passion; unagitated; not in action; not
        excited; quiet; dormant; resting.
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              In times of national security, the feeling of
              patriotism . . . is so quiescent that it seems
              hardly to exist.                      --Prof.
                                                    Wilson.
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     3. (Gram.) Not sounded; silent; as, y is quiescent in "day"
        and "say."
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  quiescent
       adj 1: not active or activated; "the quiescent level of centimeter
              wave-length solar radiation"
       2: marked by a state of tranquil repose; "the quiescent
          melancholy of the town"
       3: being quiet or still or inactive
       4: causing no symptoms; "a quiescent tumor"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  125 Moby Thesaurus words for "quiescent":
     abeyant, abiding, at a standstill, at rest, calm, changeless,
     cloistered, constant, contemplative, continuing, cool, do-nothing,
     dormant, durable, dwindling, ebbing, echoless, enduring,
     even-tenored, firm, fixed, frozen, halcyon, hush as death, hushed,
     idle, immobile, immutable, impassive, inactive, inaudible, inert,
     intact, inviolate, isolated, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, lasting,
     lurking, meditative, moldering, motionless, mousy, neuter, neutral,
     noiseless, pacific, paralytic, paralyzed, passive, peaceable,
     peaceful, permanent, perpetual, persistent, placid, potential,
     procrastinating, quiet, quietist, quietistic, remaining, reposeful,
     reposing, restful, resting, rigid, secluded, sedentary,
     sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered, silent, smooth, solid,
     soundless, stable, stagnant, stagnating, standpat, static,
     stationary, staying, steadfast, still, still as death, stillish,
     stilly, stoic, stolid, subaudible, subsiding, sustained, torpid,
     tranquil, unactive, unagitated, unaltered, unarticulated,
     unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, undestroyed,
     undisturbed, unfading, unfailing, unhearable, unmoved, unperturbed,
     unpronounced, unruffled, unshifting, unsounded, unstirring,
     untroubled, unuttered, unvaried, unvarying, unvocalized, unvoiced,
     vegetable, vegetative, waning, whist