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Tranquil

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Free from emotional or mental disturbance.

    "Some time passed before I felt tranquil even here: I had a vague dread that wild cattle might be near, or that some sportsman or poacher might discover me."

  2. 2
    Calm; without motion or sound.

    "[…]that the streams which did form were clear and tranquil because fed by perennial springs from the underground supply; and that in their tranquil waters extensive peat bogs formed."

Adjective
  1. 1
    (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves wordnet
  2. 2
    not agitated; without losing self-possession wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French tranquille, from Latin tranquillus, from trāns- + the root of quiēs (“rest, quiet, peace”), ultimately from *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest”).

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