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adjective

Calm adj. (compar. calmer; superl. calmest)

Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed. "Calm was the day." "Now all is calm, and fresh, and still."

Undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech. "Calm and sinless peace." "With calm attention." "Such calm old age as conscience pure And self-commanding hearts ensure."

Synonyms: Still; quiet; undisturbed; tranquil; peaceful; serene; composed; unruffled; sedate; collected; placid.

noun

Calm n. Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility; stillness; quiet; serenity. "The wind ceased, and there was a great calm." "A calm before a storm is commonly a peace of a man's own making."

verb

Calm v. i. (past & past part. calmed; pres. part. calming)

To make calm; to render still or quiet, as elements; as, to calm the winds. "To calm the tempest raised by Eolus."

To deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or soothe, as the mind or passions. "Passions which seem somewhat calmed."

Synonyms: To still; quiet; appease; allay; pacify; tranquilize; soothe; compose; assuage; check; restrain.

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Etymology of 'Calm'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Calm" Quotes from Famous Books

... amiable tones in which he stated how irretrievably he was ruined, the dulcet sweetness of the farewell to his heart's adored, the mathematical exactitude of his position while embracing her, the cool deliberation which marked his exit—offered a picture of calm stoicism just on the point of tumbling over the precipice of destruction not to be equalled—not, at least, since those halcyon dramatic days when Osbaldiston leased Covent ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, October 30, 1841 • Various

... is a calm? What is a squall? What are the sky and water conditions that denote the approach of ...

— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts

... him, asked him if he was badly wounded? He told me he was; but says he, 'I do not value my life if we do but get the day.' I then ordered two men to carry him off. He desired me by all means to keep up this flank. He seemed as unconcerned and calm as tho' nothing had happened to him." Reed, on whose horse the colonel was carried to the lines, wrote to his wife on the following day: "Our loss is also considerable. The Virginia Major (Leitch) ...

— The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn • Henry P. Johnston

... been laid at last Where rocks were rudely heap'd, and rent As by a spirit turbulent; Where sights were rough, and sounds were wild, And everything unreconciled, In some complaining, dim retreat Where fear and melancholy meet; But this is calm; there cannot be A ...

— Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 • Dorothy Wordsworth

... the surging anger which almost choked her and retained a calm level. Sooner or later she would find the joint in ...

— The Green Rust • Edgar Wallace

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