QUIET
What does "QUIET" mean?
Making little or no noise; free from disturbance or activity.
Meanings
- Making little or no sound. The library was perfectly quiet.
- Free from disturbance, activity, or excitement; calm. They spent a quiet weekend in the country.
- The state of being free from noise or disturbance. She craved the quiet of the early morning.
- To make or become silent, calm, or still. He quieted the crowd with a single gesture.
Did you know?
- 'Quiet' shares its root with 'quit', 'acquit', and 'tranquil' - all from Latin 'quies', meaning rest - so to quit a job and to be quiet are linguistically the same act of coming to rest.
Word origin
From Latin 'quietus' meaning 'at rest, calm', past participle of 'quiescere' (to rest), via Old French 'quiet'; the same root gives 'quit', 'acquit', and 'tranquil'.
Remember it
QUIET and QUITE share the same five letters in a different order - swap the I and E and the silence becomes emphasis.
A little poem
Snow on the rooftops-
the whole street holds its one breath
and forgets to speak.
haiku
Wordplay
- QUIET and QUITE are an anagram apart - so being quite quiet is just rearranging yourself.
What it teaches
Quiet is not empty; it's the room a thought needs before it can become a word.
Quick facts
What does QUIET mean?
Making little or no noise; free from disturbance or activity.
Is QUIET a valid word?
Yes — QUIET is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is QUIET?
QUIET has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does QUIET come from?
From Latin 'quietus' meaning 'at rest, calm', past participle of 'quiescere' (to rest), via Old French 'quiet'; the same root gives 'quit', 'acquit', and 'tranquil'.
What can QUIET teach us?
Quiet is not empty; it's the room a thought needs before it can become a word.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.