To be quiet means you don't make any noise. When you’re trying not to wake a sleeping lion, you will be quiet when you run by it. The versatile quiet, which can be a noun, adjective, or verb (to quiet others), is one of those words that is best understood through its antonyms — loud or hectic.
The meaning of QUIET is the quality or state of being quiet : tranquility. How to use quiet in a sentence.
QUIET definition: 1. making very little noise: 2. having little activity or excitement and few people: 3. A quiet…. Learn more.
QUIET definition: making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound. See examples of quiet used in a sentence.
- characterized by an absence or near absence of noise: a quiet street. 2. characterized by an absence of turbulent motion or disturbance; peaceful, calm, or tranquil: a quiet glade; the sea is quiet tonight. 3. free from activities, distractions, worries, etc; untroubled: a quiet life; a quiet day at work.
If a place is quiet, there is very little noise there. She was received in a small, quiet office. The street was unnaturally quiet. Synonyms: peaceful, silent, still, hushed More Synonyms of quiet
quiet (third-person singular simple present quiets, present participle quieting, simple past and past participle quieted) (transitive) To cause (someone or something) to become quiet.
"Quiet" describes states of calmness, silence, or the absence of disturbance. Its versatility makes it applicable in physical, emotional, and metaphorical contexts.
free from activities, distractions, worries, etc; untroubled: a quiet life, a quiet day at work marked by an absence of work, orders, etc; not busy: the factory is very quiet at the moment