Quiescent

/kwaɪˈɛsənt/ · adjective

Meaning

Inactive, quiet, at rest..

Definitions by Sense

1. Inactive, quiet, at rest.
2. (orthography) Not sounded; silent.
3. (cytology) Non-proliferating.

Example Sentences

The bats were quiescent at that time of day, so we slowly entered the cave.

In times of national security, the feeling of Patriotism among the masses is so quiescent that it seems hardly to exist—in their case national glory or national danger awakens it, and it leaps up armed cap-a-pie.

Movement was then observed in a part of the wall which had been quiescent, and another group of struts was therefore constructed, again during traffic hours as well as at night.

After all, nations are pouring massive resources into military applications of AI, and many citizens don’t know or don’t care. Yet that quiescent attitude may change over time, as the domestic use of AI surveillance ratchets up, and that technology is increasingly identified with shadowy apparatuses of control, rather than democratically accountable local powers.

“It's like the opposite of punk, isn't it?” he said jokingly in 2016 while discussing his influence on other musicians. “I've subdued a generation.” But [James] Blake is not so quiescent after all.

The k is quiescent in "knight" and "know".

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• more quiescent
• most quiescent

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