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untranquil

untranquil adjective: not tranquil.

Adjective

untranquil (comparative more untranquil, superlative most untranquil)

  1. Not tranquil.
    • I have learnt the secret of others from my own heart, and that taught me that my cousin had for me only the affection of a brother. How unlike my own feverish, untranquil, and fearful fondness for him! yet how kind he always was! how tender in his even feminine care of me!1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 287–288

Forms of untranquil

comparativemore untranquil
superlativemost untranquil

Origin of untranquil

From un- + tranquil.

Questions about untranquil

What does untranquil mean?
Untranquil means not tranquil.
What part of speech is untranquil?
Untranquil is an adjective.

Words near untranquil in the dictionary

  1. untrance
  2. untranceable
  3. untranced
  4. untrances
  5. untrancing
  6. untranquil
  7. untranquility
  8. untranquilize
  9. untranquilized
  10. untranquilizes
  11. untranquilizing

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