different between soundless vs tranquil
soundless
English
Etymology
From sound +? -less.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /sa?ndl?s/
- Hyphenation: sound?less
Adjective
soundless (comparative more soundless, superlative most soundless)
- Without sound.
- Synonyms: noiseless, silent
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act V, Scene 1,[1]
- Cassius. […] for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,
- And leave them honeyless.
- Antony. Not stingless too.
- Brutus. O yes, and soundless too;
- For you have stol’n their buzzing, Antony,
- And very wisely threat before you sting.
- 1663, Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching the Usefulness of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, Oxford: Richard Davis, Essay 2, p. 49,[2]
- The Psalmist observes, That the Heavens declare the glory of God: And indeed, they celebrate his Praises, though with a soundless Voice, yet with so loud a one […] to our intellectual Ears, that he scruples not to affirm, that There is no Speech nor Language where their voice is not heard […]
- 1797, Ann Radcliffe, The Italian, London: T. Cadell Junior & W. Davies, Volume 2, Chapter 7, p. 225,[3]
- The whole building, with its dark windows and soundless avenues, had an air strikingly forlorn and solitary.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” in Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine, Volume 5, September 1839, p. 145,[4]
- During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hang oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country […]
- 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, London: Grant Richards, 1898, XXXVIII, p. 55,[5]
- The names of men blow soundless by,
- My fellows’ and my own.
- Not capable of being sounded or fathomed.
- Synonyms: bottomless, depthless, fathomless, unfathomable
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 80,[6]
- Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat,
- Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride;
- 1614, Christopher Brooke, The Ghost of Richard the Third, London: L. Lisle, “The Legend of Richard the Third,”[7]
- Nor Wits, nor Chronicles could ere containe,
- The Hell-deepe Reaches, of my soundlesse Braine.
- 1881, Walt Whitman, “Out from Behind This Mask (To Confront a Portrait)” in Leaves of Grass, London: David Bogue, p. 296,[8]
- This heart’s geography’s map, this limitless small continent, this soundless sea;
Derived terms
- soundlessly
- soundlessness
Related terms
- sound
Translations
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tranquil
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French tranquille, from Latin tranquillus.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?t?æ?.kw?l/
Adjective
tranquil (comparative tranquiler, superlative tranquilest)
- Free from emotional or mental disturbance.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, chapter XXVIII
- 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.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, chapter XXVIII
- Calm; without motion or sound.
Synonyms
- (free from emotional disturbance): calm, peaceful, serene, steady
- (calm; without motion or sound): peaceful
Antonyms
- (free from emotional disturbance): agitated
Related terms
- tranquillity
- tranquillize
- tranquilly
- tranquilness
Translations
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin tranquillus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /t????kil/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /t?a??kil/
- Rhymes: -il
Adjective
tranquil (feminine tranquil·la, masculine plural tranquils, feminine plural tranquil·les)
- tranquil, calm (free from emotional disturbance)
- tranquil, calm (without motion or sound)
- Synonym: calm
- Antonym: agitat
Derived terms
- tranquil·lament
- tranquil·litzar
Related terms
- tranquil·litat
Further reading
- “tranquil” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “tranquil” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “tranquil” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “tranquil” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Piedmontese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tran?kwil/
Adjective
tranquil
- tranquil
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