Borrowed from Middle French tranquille, from Latin tranquillus, from trāns- + the root of quiēs (“rest, quiet, peace”), ultimately from *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest”).
tranquil (comparative tranquiler, superlative tranquilest)
- 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.
- 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.
free from emotional disturbance
- Bulgarian: тих (bg) (tih), спокоен (bg) (spokoen)
- Catalan: tranquil (ca)
- Czech: pokojný (cs)
- Danish: rolig (da), stille (da)
- Finnish: rauhallinen (fi)
- French: tranquille (fr)
- Galician: tranquilo (gl)
- German: ruhig (de), gelassen (de)
- Irish: suaimhneach
- Italian: tranquillo (it), sereno (it), calmo (it)
- Latgalian: romons, mīrons
- Latin: tranquillus
- Latvian: rāms (lv), mierīgs
- Macedonian: спо́коен (spókoen), ми́рен (míren)
- Malayalam: സ്വസ്ഥം (ml) (svasthaṁ)
- Norwegian Bokmål: rolig (no)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: roleg
- Ottoman Turkish: دولك (dölek)
- Plautdietsch: frädlich
- Polish: spokojny (pl)
- Portuguese: tranquilo (pt), calmo (pt)
- Russian: споко́йный (ru) (spokójnyj), уравнове́шенный (ru) (uravnovéšennyj), ми́рный (ru) (mírnyj), безмяте́жный (ru) (bezmjatéžnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: foiseil, suaimhneach
- Slovak: pokojný (sk)
- Slovene: spokojen
- Spanish: tranquilo (es)
- Swedish: lugn (sv)
- Walloon: påjhûle (wa), påjhire (wa), trankile (wa)
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calm; without motion or sound
- Bulgarian: неподвижен (bg) (nepodvižen)
- Catalan: tranquil (ca)
- Czech: pokojný (cs), tichý (cs)
- Danish: rolig (da), stille (da)
- Finnish: rauhallinen (fi), tyyni (fi)
- French: tranquille (fr)
- Galician: tranquilo (gl), quieto (gl)
- German: ruhig (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἡσύχιος (hēsúkhios)
- Italian: calmo (it), pacifico (it), quieto (it)
- Korean: 고요하다 (ko) (goyohada)
- Latin: tranquillus
- Macedonian: спо́коен (spókoen), ти́вок (tívok)
- Malayalam: ശാന്തം (ml) (śāntaṁ)
- Norwegian Bokmål: rolig (no)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: roleg
- Polish: cichy (pl)
- Portuguese: tranquilo (pt), calmo (pt)
- Russian: ти́хий (ru) (tíxij), споко́йный (ru) (spokójnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: foiseil, suaimhneach
- Slovak: pokojný (sk), tichý
- Spanish: tranquilo (es), apacible (es)
- Walloon: påjhûle (wa), påjhire (wa), coey (wa), trankile (wa)
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Translations to be checked
Borrowed from Latin tranquīllus.
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
tranquil
- tranquil