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quiet

adjective as in simple, unobtrusive

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Ford labels “Engage” as the normal drive mode, while “Whisper” is the quiet mode where the car produces less of the artificial “engine noise” that tells the driver what’s happening with the drivetrain.

Glass beads are washable, quiet, and tend to retain less heat than plastic, which is great for hot sleepers.

In this recording of a fin whale’s song in 2012, sped up 10 times, each loud call is followed by a series of quieter echoes.

After a quiet period, the last three months of 2020 saw yet another sharp rise as the currency’s value more than tripled—and it’s still climbing.

When we were kids, my mother loved the movie Mortal Kombat, so I remember me and my brother playing in our room and it’s dead quiet.

From Ozy

When Marvin tells this story, he gets quiet, and you can see the way it must have been.

What, I suspect, we really want from Santa is peace (and quiet) at home for the holidays.

They made quiet plans together, saying that when they had a child together, they wanted a girl called Grace.

The inauguration had to be held in the fortified Kremlin, surrounded by an eerily quiet city.

But shh shhh shh, you have to be quiet about it or they will make me take it off.

This Captain Kirton was really the best of the Kirton bunch: a quiet, unassuming young man, somewhat delicate in health.

Their discipline is admirable, but their natural disposition is likewise quiet and inoffensive.

It is the quiet chef lieu of the Allier, and was once the capital of the Bourbonnais.

The menace of a thunder-cloud approached as in his childhood's dream; disaster lurked behind the quiet outer show.

He went blindly down the street, turned at the corner and sought a quiet place, a livery barn.

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On this page you'll find 438 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to quiet, such as: muted, peaceful, reticent, silent, soft, and close.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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