Word Meanings - CALM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Freodom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or abeence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility; stilness; quiet; serenity. The wind ceased, and there was a great calm. Mark. iv. 39. A calm before

Additional info about word: CALM

Freodom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or abeence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility; stilness; quiet; serenity. The wind ceased, and there was a great calm. Mark. iv. 39. A calm before a storm is commonly a peace of a man's own making. South.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CALM)

• Collected
• Calm
• composed
• cool
• attentive
• self-possessed
• firm
• placid
• serene
• unmoved
• Compose
• Construct
• compile
• soothe
• allay
• calm
• put together
• constitute
• draw up
• frame
• form
• pacify
• mitigate
• settle
• adjust
• write
• Composure
• Tranquility
• sereneness
• self-possession
• sedateness
• repose
• Cool
• Cold
• frigid
• unimpassioned
• indifferent
• deliberate
• dispassioned
• collected
• apathetic
• Halcyon
• balmy
• unruffled

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CALM)

• Shelve
• burke
• discard
• hazard
• chance
• risk
• Rise
• stand
• wander
• flit
• flutter
• remove
• transfer

Related words: (words related to CALM)

• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• COMPOSITOUS
  Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• CONSTRUCT
  together, to construct; con- + struere to pile up, set in order. See 1. To put together the constituent parts of in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice. 2. To devise; to invent; to set in order;
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• PLACID
  Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• ADJUSTIVE
  Tending to adjust.
• INDIFFERENTLY
  In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• COMPOSURE
  1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
• COMPOSSIBLE
  Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth.
• SETTLEMENT
  A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• BALMY
  1. Having the qualities of balm; odoriferous; aromatic; assuaging; soothing; refreshing; mild. "The balmy breeze." Tickell. Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep ! Young. 2. Producing balm. "The balmy tree." Pope. Syn. -- Fragrant;
• STANDPIPE
  A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• REWRITE
  To write again. Young.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• CAPACIFY
  To quality. The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.