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  • 121serene — tranquil, *calm, peaceful, placid, halcyon Analogous words: *still, stilly, silent, noiseless, quiet: *cool, collected, composed: smooth, effortless, *easy Contrasted words: disturbed, disquieted, agitated, upset (see DISCOMPOSE) …

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  • 122silent — 1 Silent, uncommunicative, taciturn, reticent, reserved, secretive, close, close lipped, closemouthed, tight lipped are comparable when they mean showing restraint in speaking to or with others. Silent and uncommunicative often imply a tendency… …

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  • 123asleep — adv 1. fast asleep, sound asleep, dead asleep, in or into a deep sleep, in or into a coma. adj 2. sleeping, resting, reposing, slumbering, dozing, drowsing, Inf. snoozing, Sl. logging z s; somnolent, soporose, soporous; dead to the world, Inf.… …

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  • 124inactive — adj 1, inert, lifeless, inanimate; immovable, immobile, motionless; stationary, unmov ing; becalmed, still, stock still, Chiefly Literary. stilly. 2. dull, sluggish, passive, sedentary, lethargic, stagnant; sleepy, somnolent, slumberous, torpid,… …

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  • 125inert — adj 1. inactive, lifeless, inanimate; immovable, immobile, motionless; stationary, unmoving, fixed, rooted, riveted; still, stock still, Chiefly Literary. stilly, quiet, quiescent. 2. comatose, unconscious; knocked out, out cold, Inf. out like a… …

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  • 126latent — adj 1. dormant, dormient, quiescent; veiled, hidden, Obs. latitant, Inf. closet, delitescent; potential, undeveloped, unrealized, possible; unsuspected, unseen, invisible, unapparent, indiscernible, undiscernable, imperceptible, inconspicuous,… …

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  • 127motionless — adj 1. unmoving, still, stock still, Chiefly Literary. stilly; stationary, fixed, immobile, immovable, static; inert, inanimate, lifeless, dead. 2. calm, quiet, quiescent, tranquil, silent, reposeful; inactive, idle, passive, dormant, dormient,… …

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  • 128noiseless — adj 1. silent, mum, still, still as death, quiet. Chiefly Literary. stilly, Archaic. hush, soundless; inaudible, soft, hushed, muted, muffled, stifled, smothered, deadened. 2. mute, Pathol. aphonic, voiceless, speechless, tongue tied;… …

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