Tranquil

Definition: Tranquil

Tranquil

Adjective

1. Characterized by absence of emotional agitation; "calm acceptance of the inevitable"; "remained serene in the midst of turbulence"; "a serene expression on her face"; "she became more tranquil"; "tranquil life in the country".

2. Free from disturbance; "a ribbon of sand between the angry sea and the placid bay"; "the quiet waters of a lagoon"; "a lake of tranquil blue water reflecting a tranquil blue sky"; "a smooth channel crossing"; "scarcely a ripple on the still water"; "unruffled water".

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Date "tranquil" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Etymology: Tranquil \Tran"quil\, adjective. [Latin expression tranquillus; probably from trans across, over word akin to quietus quiet: compare to the French expression tranquille. See Quiet.]. (references)

Computing

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Synonyms: Tranquil

Concord

At peace, in still water; tranquil; (pacific).

Excitability

Noun: inexcitability, imperturbability, inirritability; even temper, tranquil mind, dispassion; tolerance, patience, coolth.

Easy-going, peaceful, placid, calm; quiet as a mouse; tranquil, serene; cool as a cucumber, cool as a custard; undemonstrative.

Moderation

Adjective: moderate; lenient; gentle, mild, mellow; cool, sober, temperate, reasonable, measured; tempered; Verb: calm, unruffled, quiet, tranquil, still; slow, smooth, untroubled; tame; peaceful, peaceable; pacific, halcyon.

Peace

Adjective: pacific; peaceable, peaceful; calm, tranquil, untroubled, halcyon; bloodless; neutral.

Crosswords: Tranquil

Catalan (calm, tranquil).

How safe, how tranquil and how dull (Name der Rose, Der; writing credit: Andrew Birkin; Gérard Brach)

When I look at your face, Keitaro, I feel so tranquil, like I know you from a long, long, time ago. That's what made me want to study with you for our entrance exams (Rabu Hina; writing credit: Kurou Hazuki)

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Books

• An Ex-Smokers Survival Guide: Positive Steps to a Slim, Tranquil, Smoke-Free Life (reference)

• Peaceful Sleep: A Practical Guide to Stress-Free Days & Tranquil Nights (reference)

• The Tranquil Lake of Love: Love Letters (reference)

• This Tranquil Land: Hudson River Paintings from the Hersen Collection (reference)

• Tranquil Moments (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Tranquil Images (reference)

• Tranquil Seas (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• 25 Tranquil Classics (reference)

• Tranquil Classics (reference)

• White Nights: Music of Tranquil Beauty (reference)

• Tranquil Moods: Ultimate New Age Collection [BOX SET] (reference)

• Tranquil Moods-Sampler (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She felt as if the spring would not pass without bringing a crisis, an event, a something to alter her present composed and tranquil state

The bishop looked upon the man with a tranquil eye.

Now, as then, he stood listlessly in his place, seemingly a tranquil watcher of the scene before him.

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Economic History

Barbados

Barbados enjoys a relatively tranquil labor environment among the Caribbean states. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "tranquil": tranquil flow ♦ tranquil flow flume. Additional references.

Afrikaans

kalm (calm, quiet). (various references)

Albanian

i qetë (at ease, balanced, calm, canny, collected, comfortable, comfy, composed, cool, cool-headed, dispassionate, easeful, equable, even, even-minded, halcyon, laid back, level, level headed, mild, noiseless, orderly, Pacific, passionless, peaceable, peaceful, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, retired, secure, sedate, self possessed, serene, settled, silent, smooth, sober-blooded, stationary, still, stilly, unconcern, unconcerned, uneventful, unruffled). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مطمئن (at ease, calm, peaceful, quiet, reassured, safe, secure, unconcerned), ‏هامد (extinct, inert, lifeless, static), ‏هادئ (calm, cloistered, composed, cool, dispassionate, easygoing, even, impassive, imperturbable, laid back, peaceable, peaceful, piping, placid, possessed, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, self possessed, serene, sober, steady, still, undisturbed, uneventful, unflappable, unmoved, unruffled, windless), ‏ساكن (asleep, boarder, calm, constant, dweller, featureless, placid, static). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тих (airless, breathless, calm, canny, dreamy, halcyon, low, noiseless, peaceful, placid, quiet, restful, silent, sleepy, slow, small, soft, stealthy, still, stilly, tearless, under, uneventful), необезспокояван. (various references)

Catalan

tranquil (calm). (various references)

Chinese 

惺 (understand), 澹 (placid, quiet), 平静, 平靜 (undisturbed), 安謐 (peaceful), 安寧 (calm, composed, free from worry, peaceful), 嫿 , 寧靜 (tranquility). (various references)

Czech

tichý (calm, mum, noiseless, Pacific, peaceable, quiet, restful, silent, soundless, still, stock-still, subdued, tacit, unspoken), pokojný (composed, Pacific, peaceful, restful, still), klidný (calm, collected, composed, cool, easy, halcyon, impassive, imperturbable, laid back, Pacific, peaceable, peaceful, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, secure, sedate, self possessed, serene, silent, smooth, sober, still, temperate, uneventful, unmoved, unperturbed). (various references)

Danish

rolig (calm, quiet). (various references)

Dutch

rustig (calm, leisurely, quiet, quietly), kalm (calm, leisurely, quiet, quietly), gerust (calm, politeness particle), bedaard (calm, quiet). (various references)

Esperanto

trankvila (calm). (various references)

Faeroese

róligur (calm, quiet). (various references)

Farsi 

اسوده (Calm, Easy, Snug), ارام (Bland, Calm, Daft, Douce, Gentle, Hush, Imperturbable, Moderate, Pacific, Peaceable, Peaceful, Placid, Quiet, Sedate, Serene, Silent, Staid, Taciturn, Unblenched, Unruffled, Whist), درحال سکون (Station), بی جنبش (Immobile, Inactive). (various references)

Finnish

tyyni (calm, placid, quiet, serene, untroubled). (various references)

French

tranquille. (various references)

German

ruhig (calm, calmly, cold, collectedly, composed, composedly, easeful, easy, level, orderly, peaceable, peaceful, placid, placidly, quiescent, quiescently, quiet, quietly, relaxed, reposeful, restful, restfully, sedate, sedately, self-composed, serene, silent, smooth, smoothly, staid, steadily, steady, still, stilly, subdued, tranquilly, uneventful, unexcited, unflustered, unharried, unruffled, untroubled), still (calm, dormant, hidden, hush, motionless, mum, mumly, placid, quiescent, quiet, quietly, secret, silent, silently, sleeping, still, tacit), gelassen (calm, calmly, collectedly, composed, composedly, cool, coolly, demure, dispassionate, easily, easy going, evenly, impassive, impassively, laid back, left standing, nerveless, placid, poised, quiet, sedate, self-composed, serene, serenely, undisturbed, unhurried, unperturbed, unperturbedly, unruffled). (various references)

Greek 

γαλήνιοσ (calm, halcyon, placid, serene), γαλήνιος (restful, serene, still), ήρεμοσ (calm, collected, composed, dispassionate, even tempered, placid, quiescent, quiet, serene, still), ήρεμος (calm, easy going, level-headed, restful, still), ήσυχοσ (calm, placid, quiescent, quiet, sedate, still, uneventful, windless). (various references)

Hebrew 

שקט (calmness, dummy, hush, peaceful, quiescent, quiet, quietude, secluded, silence, silent, still, stillness), שאנן (at ease, calm, carefree, complacent, secure, serene), רגוע (at ease, calm, cool, placid, relaxation, relaxed, serene, unruffled). (various references)

Hungarian

zavartalan (smooth, uncluttered, uninterrupted, unperturbed), nyugodt (calm, calm-glassy, comfortable, composed, good tempered, good-tempered, imperturbable, in all conscience, leisurely, level-headed, peaceful, placid, quiescent, quiet, reassured, relaxed, secure, sedate, self possessed, serene, staid, still, stilly, to be at ease, unruffled, unstirred, untroubled), békés (amicable, civil, harmonious, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, placid, quiet, serene). (various references)

Indonesian

hening (hush). (various references)

Italian

tranquillo (calm, cool, easy, even tempered, Pacific, peaceable, peaceful, quiet, restful, secure, smooth, still, unexcited), calmo (calm, composed, cool, equal, even tempered, halcyon, passionless, peaceable, quiet, sedate, serene, settled, silent, silently, smooth, still, unexcited). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

長閑 (calm, quiet), 閑靖 (quiet), 平穏　 (calm, peaceful, quiet, restful), 平穏 (calm, peaceful, quiet, restful), 従容たる (calm, composed), 円か (round), 安らか (calm, peaceful, restful). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しょうようたる (calm, composed), まどか (round), のどか (calm, quiet), かんせい (accomplishment, cheer, complete, completion, control, dry, dryness, government-manufactured, government-regulated organization or facility etc., inertia, perfection, pitfall, quiet, sense, sensitiveness, sensitivity, shout, shout of joy, snoring sound, trap), やすらか (calm, peaceful, restful), へいおん (calm, peaceful, quiet, restful, the usual temperature). (various references)

Manx

kiune (calm, composed, flat, Halcyon days, pacific, quiescent, serene, still). (various references)

Papiamen

trankilo (calm). (various references)

Pig Latin

anquiltray.(various references)

Polish

spokojny (calm). (various references)

Portuguese

tranquilo (calm, cool-headed, deep-seated, easeful, even-minded, half-light, orderly, pacific, passionless, peaceable, peaceful, peace-loving, piping, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, rested, restful, sedate, self-collected, self-possessed, settled, smooth, sober-blooded, still, stilly, unconcerned, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirred), sereno (calm, canny, composed, cool-headed, dew, even-minded, half-light, peaceable, peaceful, peace-loving, piping, placid, quiet, reposeful, restful, self-collected, self-possessed, serene, smooth, sober-blooded, staid, stilly, unflappable, unruffled, untroubled), calmo (calm, collected, composed, cool, cool-headed, dispassionate, douce, even, even-minded, halcyon, half-light, imperturbable, irresponsive, leisurely, mild, noiseless, passionless, peaceable, peaceful, peace-loving, philosophic, philosophical, phlegmatic, placable, placid, plodder, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, sedate, self-collected, sequestered, serene, smooth, sober, sober-blooded, staid, still, stilly, uneventful, unprovoked, unruffled, unstirred, untroubled). (various references)

Romanian

tacticos (calm, leisurely, slow, slowly, steady), senin (azure, broad, calm, clear, cloudless, fair, fine, happy, mild, peace, serene, serenity, shiny, unclouded, unruffled), odihnit (composed, fresh, recreated, refreshed, relaxed, rested, soothed), neturburat (unruffled, untroubled), liniştit (breathless, calm, calmly, comfortable, composed, cool, dead, dispassionate, easy, even, gentle, gently, gently-sloping, halcyon, imperturbable, in comfortable circumstances, mild, noiseless, orderly, Pacific, passive, peaceable, peaceful, peacefully, placid, placidly, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, secure, sedate, serene, silent, slow, smooth, sober, soft, still, unabashed, unruffled, untroubled), calm (calm, calmly, calmness, collected, collectedness, composed, composure, cool, coolness, dispassionate, easily, easy, equal, equanimity, even, even tempered, evenness, genial, halcyon, lull, passionless, peace, peaceful, peacefully, phlegmatic, placid, placidity, poise, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, sedate, serene, serenity, silence, smooth, sober, sobriety, still, temper, tranquillity, unhurried, unruffled, untroubled). (various references)

Russian 

спокойный (calm, calmer, composed, cool-headed, cosh, douce, easeful, easy, even tempered, even-minded, even-tempered, imperturbable, laid back, laid-back, level headed, placid, quiet, reposeful, secure, sedate, serene, settled, sober-blooded, still, untroubled). (various references)

Scottish

sìtheil, sèimh (mild, peaceful, placid, still), fòil (gentle, mild, slow, stately; calm), bìth (gum, pitch, quiet, resin, silent, tar). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

spokojan (calm, even-minded, serene, untroubled), miran (calm, composed, douce, halcyon, orderly, peaceful, placid, quiet, reposeful, restful, smooth, still, stilly), hladnokrvan (cold blooded, imperturbable, nerveless, sober-blooded). (various references)

Spanish

tranquilo (calm, collected, easeful, easy, even-minded, peaceful, quiet, relaxed, serene, smooth, still, stilly, tranquilized, unconcerned), sosegado (appeased, calm, composed, relaxed, restful, sedate). (various references)

Swedish

lugn (calm, comfortable, comfy, composed, composure, cool, cool-headed, coolness, countenance, dispassionate, ease, easiness, easy, equability, equable, impassive, impassivity, imperturbability, imperturbable, leisurely, low pressure, orderly, peace, peaceful, philosophical, phlegm, placid, quiescence, quiescency, quiescent, quiet, quietness, quietude, repose, restful, sedate, self controlled, self possessed, sequestered, serene, serenity, sheltered, sobriety, tranquility, tranquillity, undisturbed, unhurried, unruffled). (various references)

Turkish

sakin (airless, calm, citizen, comfortable, composed, composedly, dispassionate, domicilled, dweller, equal, even, even tempered, habitant, halcyon, hushed, imperturbable, in repose, indweller, inhabitant, inmate, laidback, local, nerveless, noiseless, Pacific, peaceable, peaceful, philosophic, philosophical, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, resident, sedate, serene, smooth, steady, still, tenant, unperturbed, unruffled, untroubled), huzurlu (calm, easy, peaceful, quiet, reposeful, restful, serene), durgun (airless, bovine, calm, depressed, ditch water, ditchwater, flat, halcyon, in the doldrums, inactive, languid, lifeless, placid, quiescent, quiet, serene, settled, slack, sleepy, stagnant, standing, static, still, stock-still, unruffled, untroubled, windless), asude (calm). (various references)

Ukrainian

урівноважений (balanced, cool-headed, equable, even, even tempered, even-minded, level headed, shockproof, sober minded, staid, well balanced), спокійний (balanced, calm, canny, collected, composed, cool, cool-headed, deft, easeful, even-minded, halcyon, impassive, laidback, leisurable, orderly, placid, quiescent, quiet, relaxed, reposeful, restful, secure, sound, together, unruffled). (various references)

Vietnamese 

yên tĩnh; thanh bình, yên lặng (calmly, quiescent, quiet, quietly, silently), lặng lẽ. (various references)

Welsh

tawel (calm, quiet, still). (various references)

zah. (various references)

quieta, quietam, quieti, quietis, quietissimus, quieto, quietum, quietus, sereno, serenum. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tranquil": tranquiler, tranquilest, tranquilities, tranquility, tranquilize, tranquilized, tranquilizer, tranquilizers, tranquilizes, tranquilizing, tranquiller, tranquillest, tranquillities, tranquillity, tranquillize, tranquillized, tranquillizer, tranquillizers, tranquillizes, tranquillizing, tranquilly, tranquilness, tranquilnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tranquil" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Rapnouil, Renquin, Taynuilt, trainful, tranauil, Trancik, Trankell, tranpuil, tranqiul, tranqui, tranquial, tranquill, tranquillo, tranquils, tranquily. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: quintal, quintar.

-2 letters: nutria, qintar, quaint, quinta, ratlin, ritual, trinal, urinal.

-3 letters: lunar, quail, quant, quart, quilt, quint, quirt, riant, rutin, trail, train, tranq, trial, ulnar, ultra, unlit, until, urial.

-4 letters: airn, airt, alit, anil, anti, aril, aunt, lain, lair, lari, lati, liar, lint, lira, litu, luna, lunt, nail, nurl, quai, quin, quit, rail.

+2 letters: tranquiler, tranquilly.

+3 letters: equilibrant, tranquilest, tranquility, tranquilize, tranquiller.

+4 letters: equalitarian, equilibrants, quadrivalent, quarterfinal, tranquilized, tranquilizer, tranquilizes, tranquillest, tranquillity, tranquillize, tranquilness.

+5 letters: equalitarians, equilibrating, equilibration, grandiloquent, inquisitorial, quadrillionth, quadrivalents, quarterfinals, tranquilities, tranquilizers, tranquilizing, tranquillized, tranquillizer, tranquillizes, ventriloquial.