Quietly

Definition: Quietly

Quietly

Adverb

1. With low volume; "speak softly but carry a big stick"; "she spoke quietly to the child"; "the radio was playing softly".

2. With little or no sound; "the class was listening quietly and intently"; "she was crying quietly".

3. With little or no activity or especially agitation; "her hands rested quietly in her lap"; "the rock star was quietly led out the back door"; (`quiet' is a nonstandard variant for `quietly' as in "sit here as quiet as you can").

4. In a restful manner; "the streets are restfully sunny and still for the town is at mass".

Date "quietly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Quietly

Synonyms: quiet (adv), restfully (adv), softly (adv). (additional references)

Antonyms: loudly (adv), noisily (adv), unquietly (adv). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Mediocrity	Verb: jog on; go fairly, go quietly, go peaceably, go tolerably, go respectably, get on fairly, get on quietly, get on peaceably, get on tolerably, get on respectably.
Modesty	Adverb: humbly; Adjective: quietly, privately; without ceremony, without beat of drum; sans fa_on.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Quietly

English words defined with "quietly": burked ♦ chortle, chuckle, closed, croak ♦ diligent, doggo ♦ gnarl, grumble, Gun cotton ♦ in hiding, In quiet, Insinuating ♦ last respects, laugh softly, listen in ♦ murmur, mutter ♦ out of sight ♦ persevering ♦ quiet ♦ shut, sleeper, sleeper goby, slip, snicker, snigger, softly. (references)

Specialty definitions using "quietly": Asparagus ♦ cascading ♦ Fledgeby ♦ John-a-Droynes ♦ Ram ♦ Sparrowgrass, subterminal lava flow. (references)

Etymologies containing "quietly": Eremacausis. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	If we're wrong, we go to jail---peacefully, quietly. We'll enjoy it (Ghost Busters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis) You know, I know what your trouble is, son. You'd like me to die quickly, wouldn't you, without wasting too much of your time; or quietly, so I won't embarrass you too much; or even thankfully, so your memory of the occasion won't be too unpleasant (Bad Day at Black Rock; writing credit: Howard Breslin; Don McGuire) Caught me fair and square, white hat. I guess there is nothing to do now but go quietly and pay my debt to society (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles) For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius (Young Frankenstein; writing credit: Mary Shelley; Gene Wilder) Most people here died instantly, a few had time to go quietly nuts (The Andromeda Strain; writing credit: Michael Crichton; Nelson Gidding)
Lyrics	Ain't gonna spend the rest of my life, Quietly fading away (Games People Play; performing artist: Alan Parsons Project) To quietly pass me by (Sweet Child O' Mine; performing artist: Guns N' Roses) And quietly she says how was your night (She Believes In Me; performing artist: Kenny Rogers)
Clever	Adult Education Topic: Is it genetically impossible to sit quietly as she parallel parks? Driving simulation. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Love Comes Quietly (1973) Follow Me Quietly (1949)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Promoting Yourself in the Workplace: How to Quietly Help Yourself by Helping Others (reference) Quietly Comes the Buddha: Awakening Your Inner Buddha-Nature (reference) Quietly Dead (reference) Quietly in Their Sleep (reference) Screaming Quietly (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Follow Me Quietly (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Quietly Led (reference) Quietly There (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	A bergy bit floating quietly in Tracy Arm Fjord. Credit: America's Coastlines.		Jane stood in the doorway, quietly regarding them. Credit: Library of Congress.
	The doctor waited quietly before him. Credit: Library of Congress.		How you can become a criminal while sitting quietly at home. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Blaise Pascal	All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
Edgar Allan Poe	The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe	The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
Michel de Montaigne	All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Magna Carta	1215	Wherefore we will and firmly order that the English Church be free, and that the men in our kingdom have and hold all the aforesaid liberties, rights, and concessions, well and peaceably, freely and quietly, fully and wholly, for themselves and their heirs, of us and our heirs, in all respects and in all places forever, as is aforesaid. (reference)
John Locke	1690	If the innocent honest man must quietly quit all he has, for peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered, what a kind of peace there will be in the world, which consists only in violence and rapine; and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of robbers and oppressors. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	She checked herself, however, and submitted quietly to a little more praise than she deserved
Alice in Wonderland	Carroll, Lewis	So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to see it trot away quietly into the wood
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	The victory accomplished, Pearl returned quietly to her mother, and looked up, smiling, into her face
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Have they the right to throw snow into our backs when we are going along quietly like that without doing any harm to anybody
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	He bowed and walked quietly out of the room, closing the doors carefully and slowly
Brighton Beach Memoirs	Neil Simon	Eugene: She wants me to write quietly. If that was the only sentence I published in my memoirs, it would be a bestseller
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	And the women went quickly, quietly back into the houses and herded the children ahead of them
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Some may react by sliding quietly into depression and withdraw from contact with other people. (references)
Civil Liberties	Morocco	Foreign missionaries either limit their proselytizing to non-Muslims or conduct their work quietly. (references)
	Cuba	Jehovah's Witnesses, once considered "active religious enemies of the revolution," were allowed to proselytize quietly door-to-door and generally were not subject to overt government harassment, although there were sporadic reports of harassment by local Communist Party and government officials. (references)
Economic History	Georgia	The UN observer force and other organizations are quietly encouraging grassroots cooperative and confidence-building measures in the region. (references)
Human Rights	Sri Lanka	The Government later acknowledged quietly that the attack was an accident. (references)
Political Economy	India	Despite demands from members of their own party and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS - of which the BPJ is an off-shoot), BJP leaders have quietly distanced themselves from their campaign rhetoric which advocated "computer chips and not potato chips" in foreign investment and a "swadeshi" (made in India) economy. (references)
	OMAN	Net oil revenues increased by 25.8 percent during the period January through August 2001 compared to the same period in 2000; however, this is due to a quirk in Oman's official accounting, whereby oil revenues up to a set price ($14.50 in 2000, and $18.00 in 2001) are counted as revenue, while excess revenues are quietly credited to the State General Reserve Fund. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Bob Barker	We want high-energy contestants, not necessarily. We want people who are in a good mood. They can be funny and fun quietly. They don't have to jump up and down and scream. If that comes natural for them, do it.
Sarah Ferguson	Well, I personally wouldn't because I love the sort of, I would love to think that you could go and sit there quietly and listen to the birds and smell the flowers and just be at peace and remember all the people that lost their lives on that day.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	When we have differed with the Soviet Union, or other nations, for that matter, I have tried to differ quietly and with courtesy, and without venom.
Richard Nixon	1969-1974	We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another--until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Quietly, but with gathering force, the ground has shifted beneath our feet as we have moved into an Information Age, a global economy, a truly new world.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Quietly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.76% of the time. "Quietly" is used about 4,146 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	99.76%	4,136	2,377
Noun (proper)	0.19%	8	124,375
Noun (common)	0.05%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	4,146	N/A

Expressions using "quietly": get on quietly ♦ go quietly. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "quietly": quietly-spoken.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "quietly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		qetë (easy, evenly, undisturbedly), pa zhurmë (silent, silently). (various references)

Arabic		‏رويدا رويدا (bit by bit, slowly), ‏بهدوء (easy, evenly, placidly, play cool, slow, softly), ‏بطمأنينة. (various references)

Bulgarian		скромно (decently, frugally, humbly, meanly, quiet, simply), спокойно (calmly, easy, evenly, gently, leisurely, quiet, smooth), тихо (hist, hush, inwardly, low, mum, piano, quiet, silently, soft, sotto voce, soundlessly, stilly), безшумно (noiselessly, quiet, soundlessly, stealthily), полека (gently, gradually, lightly, slowly, softly). (various references)

Chinese		悄悄 , 安静地. (various references)

Czech		potichu (low). (various references)

Dutch		rustig (calm, leisurely, quiet, tranquil), kalm (calm, leisurely, quiet, tranquil). (various references)

Esperanto		kviete (leisurely). (various references)

Finnish		tyynesti (calmly). (various references)

French		paisiblement. (various references)

German		ruhig (calm, calmly, cold, collectedly, composed, composedly, easeful, easy, level, orderly, peaceable, peaceful, placid, placidly, quiescent, quiescently, quiet, relaxed, reposeful, restful, restfully, sedate, sedately, self-composed, serene, silent, smooth, smoothly, staid, steadily, steady, still, stilly, subdued, tranquil, tranquilly, uneventful, unexcited, unflustered, unharried, unruffled, untroubled). (various references)

Greek		ήσυχα (calmly, gently, quiet). (various references)

Hebrew		בשקט, בנחת (gently). (various references)

Hungarian		nyugodtan (calmly, composedly, imperturbably, leisurely, levelly, on an even keel, sedately, serenely, tranquilly, undisturbedly), csendesen (silently, stilly, uneventfully). (various references)

Indonesian		diam-diam (furtive, secretly), dengan diam-diam (clandestine). (various references)

Italian		tranquillamente (noiselessly, safely), sommesso (humble, low, quiet, silent, soft), silenziosamente (silently, softly, soundlessly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		徐々に (gradually, little by little, slowly, steadily). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぎょうぜんとして (without the slightest movement), すっと (all of a sudden, directly, gently, quickly, softly, straight), おちおち (calmly), しずしず (dejectedly, in low spirits, sadly, slowly), そろそろ (gradually, slowly, soon, steadily), しゅくぜんと (softly, solemnly), しゅくしゅくと (softly, solemnly), しゅくとして (softly, solemnly), ぶじに (peacefully, safely), じっと (firmly, fixedly, patiently), じょじょに (gradually, little by little, slowly, steadily), じょじょ (gradually, slowly, soon, steadily). (various references)

Korean		조용하게. (various references)

Manx		dy kiune (soft, softly). (various references)

Pig Latin		ietlyquay.(various references)

Portuguese		quietamente. (various references)

Romanian		cuminte (clever, dutiful, foreseeing, good, level, quiet, reasonable, sapient, sensible, serious, unassuming, well advised, wise, wisely). (various references)

Russian		спокойно (calmly, on an even keel, tranquilly, undisturbedly), тихо (quiet, stilly, under one's breath). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tiho (noiselessly, peacefully, quiet, still, stilly), mirno (calmly, peacefully, quiet, still, stilly), krotko, blago (blandly, gold, mildly, pelf, smoothly, treasure). (various references)

Spanish		tranquilamente (calmly, serenely, sound, stilly, tranquilly), sin hacer ruido, silenciosamente (silently, soundlessly), pasito (quiet, silent), en la intimidad (private, privately), con sobriedad, calladamente. (various references)

Swedish		tystlåtet. (various references)

Turkish		yavaşça (gingerly, in quiet, slowly, soft, stepwise), usul (brand, cut, formality, gently, method, modus, observance, order, practice, procedure, process, rite, system, technique, usage, way, wise), sessizce (in quiet, in silence, mutely, noiselessly, on tiptoe, silently, tiptoe), ses çıkarmadan (in silence, unsung), sakin bir biçimde. (various references)

Turkmen		keremara (silently). (various references)

Ukrainian		спокійно (at ease, calmly, easy, evenly, leisurely, peacefully, serenely, smooth, with abandon), тихо (hush, low, shush, silently, slowly, small, stilly). (various references)

Vietnamese		yên tĩnh (silent, stilly), yên lặng (calmly, quiescent, quiet, silently, tranquil), thanh thản (easeful, easily, easy), thanh bình (halcyon), êm ả yên ổn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	quiete. (various references)
Avestan	200-600	airime. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Proverbs Chapter 29, Verse 11
Latin	405	Vulgate	Totum spiritum suum profert stultus sapiens differt et reservat in posterum
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Al his spirit bringeth forth the fool; a wis man berth ouer, and kepith vnto afterward.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	A foolish man lets out all his wrath, but a wise man keeps it back quietly.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Proverbs Chapter 29, Verse 11
Cebuano	¶ Ang usa ka buang nagabutyag sa tanan niyang kasuko; Apan ang usa ka manggialamon nga tawo nagatago niini ug nagapakahilum niini.
Chinese	愚妄人怒氣全發．智慧人忍氣含怒。
Croatian	Bezumnik izlijeva sav svoj gnjev, a mudrac susteže svoju srdžbu.
Danish	En Tåbe slipper al sin Voldsomhed løs, Vismand stiller den omsider.
Dutch	Een zot laat zijn gansen geest uit, maar de wijze wederhoudt dien achterwaarts.
Finnish	Tyhmä purkaa kaiken sisunsa, mutta viisas sen viimein tyynnyttää.
French	L`insensé met en dehors toute sa passion, Mais le sage la contient.
German	Ein Narr schüttet seinen Geist ganz aus; aber ein Weiser hält an sich.
Hungarian	Az õ egész indulatját elõmutatja a bolond; de a bölcs végre megcsendesíti azt.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Orang bodoh marah secara terang-terangan, tetapi orang bijaksana bersabar dan menahan kemarahan.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Orang bodoh itu mengeluarkan segala kepikiran hatinya, tetapi orang yang berbudi menahankan dia sampai kemudian kelak.
Italian	Lo stolto dà sfogo a tutto il suo malanimo, il saggio alla fine lo sa calmare.
Korean	어 리 석 은 자 는 그 노 를 다 드 러 내 어 도 지 혜 로 운 자 는 그 노 를 억 제 하 느 니 라
Maori	¶ E tuakina ana e te wairangi tona riri katoa ki waho: e puritia mai ana ia e te tangata whakaaro nui, e pehia ana.
Norwegian	All sin vrede lar dåren strømme ut, men den vise holder vreden tilbake og stiller den.
Portuguese	O tolo derrama toda a sua ira; mas o sábio a reprime e aplaca.
Rumanian	Nebunul kwi aratq toatq patima, dar knyeleptul o stqpknewte. -
Russian	зМХРЩК ЧЕУШ ЗОЕЧ УЧПК ЙЪМЙЧБЕФ, Б НХДТЩК УДЕТЦЙЧБЕФ ЕЗП.
Spanish	El necio da rienda suelta a toda su ira, pero el sabio conteniéndose la apacigua.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words ending with "quietly": disquietly, unquietly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Quietly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gielty, Kitely, queely, quely, quiel, quitey, quity. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "quietly" (pronounced kwī"utlē)
4	-u t l ē	accurately, adequately, affectionately, alternately, appropriately, approximately, commensurately, compassionately, definitely, deliberately, delicately, desperately, dispassionately, disproportionately, elaborately, explicitly, exquisitely, fortunately, illicitly, immaculately, immediately, implicitly, inaccurately, inadequately, inappropriately, indefinitely, indiscriminately, infinitely, inordinately, intimately, intricately, legitimately, minutely, moderately, passionately, privately, proportionately, secretly, separately, tacitly, ultimately, unfortunately.
3	-t l ē	abruptly, absolutely, abundantly, accidently, acutely, adamantly, adroitly, apparently, aptly, ardently, arrogantly, astutely, blatantly, bluntly, brightly, brilliantly, coherently, competently, complacently, completely, concomitantly, concretely, concurrently, confidently, consequently, consistently, constantly, conveniently, correctly, costly, courtly, covertly, currently, curtly, decently, defiantly, deftly, devoutly, differently, difficultly, diligently, directly, discreetly, dishonestly, jointly, justly, knightly, lastly, lately, distinctly, earnestly, efficiently, elegantly, eloquently, eminently, evidently, exactly, excellently, expertly, extravagantly, exultantly, faintly, fervently, firstly, flagrantly, flamboyantly, flatly, fluently, forthrightly, fortnightly, fraudulently, frequently, gently, ghastly, ghostly, greatly, hesitantly, honestly, hotly, imminently, impatiently, imperfectly, importantly, imprudently, inadvertently, incessantly, incoherently, incompetently, incorrectly, independently, indignantly, indirectly, inefficiently, ineptly, infrequently, inherently, innately, innocently, insistently, instantly, insufficiently, intelligently, intently, intermittently, leniently, lightly, magnificently, manifestly, militantly, modestly, mostly, motley, neatly, negligently, nightly, nonchalantly, obediently, overtly, partly, patently, patiently, perfectly, permanently, persistently, pleasantly, poignantly, politely, portly, predominantly, presently, priestly, prominently, promptly, prudently, pungently, quaintly, raptly, recently, reluctantly, remotely, resolutely, reverently, rightly, robustly, saintly, shortly, significantly, silently, slightly, smartly, softly, sprightly, stately, steadfastly, stoutly, strictly, stridently, stringently, subsequently, succinctly, sufficiently, sweetly, swiftly, tightly, transparently, triumphantly, unjustly, unpleasantly, unsightly, urgently, valiantly, vastly, vehemently, violently, virulently, Whitely.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-l-q-t-u-y"
	-1 letter: equity.
	-2 letters: quiet, quilt, quite, utile.
	-3 letters: etui, lieu, lite, litu, lute, quey, quit, tile, tule, yeti, yule.
	-4 letters: lei, let, leu, ley, lie, lit, lye, tel, tie, til, tui, tye, yet.
	-5 letters: el, et, it, li, ti, ut, ye.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-l-q-t-u-y"
	+1 letter: equality.
	+2 letters: equitably, unquietly.
	+3 letters: coequality, disquietly, equability, inequality.
	+4 letters: exquisitely, inequitably, quiescently, ventriloquy.
	+5 letters: coquettishly, delinquently, equationally, equitability, equivalently, equivocality, inadequately, ineloquently, infrequently, questionably, sequentially, superquality.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
frank quietly	3
quietly	3
go good into night not quietly that	2
leading quietly	2
business buy helping quietly sell	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.


"Quietly 2" by Mike Mays Commentary: "Self Portrait. My sis wanted to try my camera without letting me know till like 10 minutes ago :D enjoy."	"Silent road" by Markus . Commentary: "The road of are so wonderful quietly in the morning."
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Quietly

Definition: Quietly

Quietly

Adverb

Synonyms: Quietly

Synonyms within Context: Quietly

Mediocrity

Modesty

Crosswords: Quietly

Modern Usage: Quietly

Screenplays

Lyrics

Clever

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Quietly

Books

Theater & Movies

Music

Photo Album: Quietly

Digital Photo Gallery: Quietly

Familiar Quotations: Quietly

Blaise Pascal

Edgar Allan Poe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Michel de Montaigne

Historic Usage: Quietly

Magna Carta

John Locke

Use in Literature: Quietly

Emma

Austen, Jane

Alice in Wonderland

Carroll, Lewis

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Brighton Beach Memoirs

Neil Simon

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Non-Fiction Usage: Quietly

Spoken Usage: Quietly

Bob Barker

Sarah Ferguson

Speeches: Quietly

Lyndon B. Johnson

Richard Nixon

Bill Clinton

Usage Frequency: Quietly

Expressions: Quietly

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Quietly

Modern Translation: Quietly

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Japanese Kanji

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