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Borrowed from Middle French tranquille, from Latin tranquillus, from trāns- + the root of quiēs (rest, quiet, peace), ultimately from *kʷyeh₁- (to rest).

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  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈtɹæŋ.kwɪl/
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tranquil (comparative tranquiler, superlative tranquilest)

  1. Free from emotional or mental disturbance.
    Synonyms: calm, peaceful, serene, steady
    Antonym: agitated
    • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter XXVIII, in Jane Eyre:
      Some time passed before I felt tranquil even here: I had a vague dread that wild cattle might be near, or that some sportsman or poacher might discover me.
  2. Calm; without motion or sound.
    Synonym: peaceful
    • 1921, Douglas Wilson Johnson, Battlefields of the World War, Western and Southern Fronts: A Study in Military Geography, page 262:
      [] that the streams which did form were clear and tranquil because fed by perennial springs from the underground supply; and that in their tranquil waters extensive peat bogs formed.

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Borrowed from Latin tranquīllus.

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tranquil (feminine tranquil·la, masculine plural tranquils, feminine plural tranquil·les)

  1. tranquil, calm (free from emotional disturbance)
  2. tranquil, calm (without motion or sound)
    Synonym: calm
    Antonym: agitat

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tranquil

  1. tranquil