tranquil

TRANG-kwiladj

Meaning quiet and still; free from disturbance

Memory hook a toy TRAIN and a QUILT: TRAN-QUIL. Theo’s toy train sits still on the rug while he sleeps under his warm quilt. The whole room is quiet and tranquil.

By evening the stormy sea had turned tranquil.

In context After a week in the noisy city, the family loved the tranquil cabin, where the only sounds at night were crickets and the wind in the pines.

Similar peaceful, quiet, placid, untroubled

Opposite noisy, turbulent, chaotic

From Latin tranquillus, “calm, quiet, still.”

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