quiescent
Syllables: qui·es·cent/kwaɪˈɛsənt/
quiescent adjective: inactive, quiet, at rest.
Adjective
quiescent (comparative more quiescent, superlative most quiescent)
- Inactive, quiet, at rest.
- The bats were quiescent at that time of day, so we slowly entered the cave.
- In times of national security, the feeling of Patriotism among the masses is so quiescent that it seems hardly to exist—in their case national glory or national danger awakens it, and it leaps up armed cap-a-pie.1840, John Wilson, “On the Genius and Character of Burns”, in John Wilson; Robert Chambers, The Land of Burns, a Series of Landscapes and Portraits, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of the...
- Not sounded; silent.
- The k is quiescent in "knight" and "know".
- Synonyms:
- servile
- Non-proliferating.
quiescent meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
quiescent in Tamil
- அமைதி, பிரச்சினைத் தராத, அசையாத, இயங்காத, மௌனித்த, அடங்கிய
quiescent in Urdu
- غیرمتحرک, جامد, مطمئن, پرسکون, ساکن, ساکت
quiescent in Bengali
- শান্ত, নিষ্ক্রিয়
quiescent in Malayalam
- inert, inactive, idle
- നിഷ്ക്രിയമായ, പ്രവർത്തനരഹിതം, അകർമ്മണ്യ, നിശ്ചേഷ്ടമായ, അചലമായ, ജഡം
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- quiescent in Kannada
- ಕದಲದ, ಹಂದದ, ಉಲಿಯದ
Examples of quiescent in a sentence
- Movement was then observed in a part of the wall which had been quiescent, and another group of struts was therefore constructed, again during traffic hours as well as at night.1955 February, “Notes and News: Arresting an Earth Slip at Uxbridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 138:
- “I've subdued a generation.” But [James] Blake is not so quiescent after all.2025 June 14, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “James Blake’s fight against ‘free music’”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial...
Synonyms of quiescent
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Forms of quiescent
| comparative | more quiescent |
|---|---|
| superlative | most quiescent |
Origin of quiescent
Learned borrowing from Latin quiēscēns, quiēscentem.
Words formed from quiescent
Words that rhyme with quiescent
- crescent
- evanescent
- deliquescent
- fluorescent
- incandescent
- efflorescent
- senescent
- accrescent
- acquiescent
- arborescent
- circumcrescent
- convalescent
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- depressant
- effervescent
- erubescent
- excrescent
- iridescent
- juvenescent
- lapidescent
- pubescent
- recrudescent
- reflorescent
- spinescent
- tumescent
- virescent
- viridescent
- acaulescent
- adipescent
- adularescent
- adultescent
- adultolescent
- agonescent
- albescent
- alcalescent
- alkalescent
- antidepressant
- autofluorescent
- autoluminescent
- biofluorescent
- bioluminescent
- calescent
- candescent
- cathodoluminescent
- caulescent
- cerulescent
- cessant
- chemifluorescent
- chemiluminescent
- chemoluminescent
- cinerescent
- coalescent
- concrescent
- contabescent
- crystalloluminescent
- cytofluorescent
- decadescent
- decalescent
- defervescent
- delitescent
- detumescent
Questions about quiescent
- What does quiescent mean?
- Quiescent means inactive, quiet, at rest.
- What is quiescent in Tamil?
- Quiescent in Tamil is அமைதி, பிரச்சினைத் தராத, அசையாத. See Quiescent meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use quiescent in a sentence?
- Movement was then observed in a part of the wall which had been quiescent, and another group of struts was therefore constructed, again during traffic hours as well as at night.
- What part of speech is quiescent?
- Quiescent is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce quiescent?
- Quiescent is pronounced /kwaɪˈɛsənt/.
Words near quiescent in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: quiescent (page history and authors); quiescent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quiescent (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quiescent (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quiescent (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); quiescent (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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