quiescent

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: qui=es=cent

CIDE DICTIONARY

quiescent, a. [L. quiescens, -entis, p. pr. of quiescere: cf. F. quiescent. See Quiesce.].

•  Being in a state of repose; at rest; still; not moving; as, a quiescent body or fluid.  [1913 Webster]
•  Not ruffed with passion; unagitated; not in action; not excited; quiet; dormant; resting.  [1913 Webster]

  "In times of national security, the feeling of patriotism . . . is so quiescent that it seems hardly to exist."  [1913 Webster]
•  Not sounded; silent; as, y is quiescent in “day” and “say.”  [1913 Webster]

quiescent, n. 

 A silent letter.  M. Stuart.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

quiescent, adj.
1 motionless, inert.
2 silent, dormant.

Derivative

quiescence n. quiescency n. quiescently adv.

Etymology

L quiescere f. quies QUIET

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

quiescent

Stability

N stability, immutability, unchangeability unchangeableness, constancy, stable equilibrium, immobility, soundness, vitality, stabiliment, stiffness, ankylosis, solidity, aplomb, establishment, fixture, rock, pillar, tower, foundation, leopard's spots, Ethiopia's skin, permanence, obstinacy, unchangeable, immutable, unaltered, unalterable, not to be changed, constant, permanent, invariable, undeviating, stable, durable, perennial, fixed, steadfast, firm, fast, steady, balanced, confirmed, valid, fiducial, immovable, irremovable, riveted, rooted, settled, established, vested, incontrovertible, stereotyped, indeclinable, tethered, anchored, moored, at anchor, on a rock, rock solid, firm as a rock, firmly seated, firmly established, deep-rooted, ineradicable, inveterate, obstinate, transfixed, stuck fast, aground, high and dry, stranded, stuck, jammed, unremovable, quiescent, deterioration, indefeasible, irretrievable, intransmutable, incommutable, irresoluble, irrevocable, irreversible, reverseless, inextinguishable, irreducible, indissoluble, indissolvable, indestructible, undying, imperishable, incorruptible, indelible, indeciduous, insusceptible, insusceptible of change, Int, stet, littera scripta manet.

Quiescence

N quiescence, rest, stillness, quiescence, stagnation, stagnancy, fixity, immobility, catalepsy, indisturbance, quietism, quiet, tranquility, calm, repose, peace, dead calm, anticyclone, statue-like repose, silence, not a breath of air, not a mouse stirring, sleep, pause, lull, stand still, standing still, lock, dead lock, dead stop, dead stand, full stop, fix, embargo, resting place, gite, bivouac, home, pillow, haven, goal, quiescent, still, motionless, moveless, fixed, stationary, immotile, at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor, stock, still, standing still, sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home, becalmed, stagnant, quiet, unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled, calm, restful, cataleptic, immovable, sleeping, silent, still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death, vegetative, vegetating, at a stand, tout court, at the halt, Int, stop!, stay!, avast!, halt!, hold hard!, whoa!, hold!, sabr karo!, requiescat in pace, Deus nobis haec otia fecit, the noonday quiet holds the hill.