calm
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
calm/kɑːm/
▶adjective
- 1 not showing or feeling nervousness, anger, or other emotions.
- 2 (of a place) peaceful and undisturbed.
■ (of weather or the sea) free from wind.
- 1 the state or fact of being peaceful or tranquil.
- 2 the absence of wind.
■ (calms) an area of the sea without wind.
– derivatives
calmly adverb,
calmness noun.
calmly adverb,
calmness noun.
– origin ME: via one of the Romance languages from Gk kauma ‘heat (of the day)’.
'calm' also found in these Oxford entries:
anticyclone
- Beaufort scale
- chill
- compose
- composure
- cool
- cucumber
- decompress
- doing
- dulcify
- equable
- equilibrium
- even
- eye
- hair
- halcyon
- head
- horse latitudes
- level
- level-headed
- loose
- lull
- Mediterranean climate
- millpond
- nervine
- nonchalant
- oasis
- pacific
- peaceful
- philosophical
- phlegm
- phlegmatic
- placate
- placebo
- placid
- pour
- presence
- quiet
- quietism
- repose
- sea
- sedate
- sedation
- sedative
- self-possessed
- serene
- shirt
- soft
- soothe
