calm

1. 1

   Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.

2. 2

   Free of noise and disturbance.

   • Calm is the morn without a sound, ⁠Calm as to suit a calmer grief, ⁠And only thro’ the faded leaf The chestnut pattering to the ground: […]
3. 3

   with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled.

4. 4

   Without wind or storm.

5. 5

   Good; alright; cool; OK.Multicultural-London-Englishslang

   • Hi, welcome to Puma. If you need any help, my name's Kelly. That's calm, man[…]Thirty pounds is the limit, I think you'll pay no more, I'm sorry. Aight, fuck it! What, can I do chip and pin. Calm, I'ma put my pin in like boom!
   • Been living my life as a Kingpin. I'm calm with the heat of the kitchen.

syn. calm · steady · collected · composed · cool-headed · equable · equanimous · equanimitable · even-keeled · even-minded · even-tempered · imperturbable

ant. angry · nervous · peevish

1. 1

   The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.countableuncountable

   • Calm on the seas, and silver sleep, ⁠And waves that sway themselves in rest, ⁠And dead calm in that noble breast Which heaves but with the heaving deep.
2. 2

   The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.countableuncountable

3. 3

   The absence of wind; a period of time without wind.countableuncountable

   • The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
   • It was a calm ; so, forming a tandem of three boats, we commenced the slow business of towing the trophy to the Pequod.

1. 1

   To make calm.transitive

   • to calm a crying baby
   • to calm the passions
2. 2

   To become calm.intransitive

syn. allay · appease · calm down · cool off · ease · pacify · quieten · soothe · subdue

ant. agitate · excite