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tranquiller

tranquiller is the comparative form of tranquil.

Meaning of tranquil

Adjective

tranquil (comparative tranquiler, superlative tranquilest)

  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.1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter XXVIII, in Jane Eyre
    Antonyms:
    agitated
  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.1921, Douglas Wilson Johnson, Battlefields of the World War, Western and Southern Fronts: A Study in Military Geography, page 262

Questions about tranquiller

What is tranquiller the comparative form of?
Tranquiller is the comparative form of tranquil.

Words near tranquiller in the dictionary

  1. tranquilizer darts
  2. tranquilizers
  3. tranquilizes
  4. tranquilizing
  5. tranquilizingly
  6. tranquiller
  7. tranquillest
  8. tranquillisation
  9. tranquillisations
  10. tranquillise
  11. tranquillised

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