Calm vs Repose - What's the difference?
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(of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
(of a place or situation) Free of noise and disturbance.
(of water) with little waves on the surface.
Without wind or storm.
(in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.
(in a place or situation) The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.
A period of time without wind.
* Bible, Mark iv. 39
To make calm.
* Dryden
To become calm.
(dated) rest, sleep
* 1908 ,
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quietness, ease; peace, calmness
* Dante Divine Comedy,Inferno, Canto 10
(geology) period between eruptions of a volcano.
To lie at rest; to rest.
* Chapman
To lie; to be supported.
To lay, to set down.
* Chapman
* Woodward
To place, have, or rest; to set; to entrust.
* Shakespeare
To reside in something.
(figuratively) To remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms.
* I. Taylor
Calm is a related term of repose.
As verbs the difference between calm and repose
is that calm is to make calm while repose is .As an adjective calm
is (of a person) peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.As a noun calm
is (in a person) the state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.calm
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* (free from anger and anxiety) stressed, nervous, anxious * (free of noise and disturbance) disturbed * (without wind or storm) windy, stormyDerived terms
* calm as a millpond * ice-calmNoun
(en noun)- The wind ceased, and there was a great calm .
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* ice-calmVerb
(en verb)- to calm a crying baby
- to calm the passions
- to calm the tempest raised by Aeolus
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* calm down, cool off, ease, pacify, quieten, soothe, subdueAnagrams
* ----repose
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- Dark and deserted as it was, the night was full of small noises, song and chatter and rustling, telling of the busy little population who were up and about, plying their trades and vocations through the night till sunshine should fall on them at last and send them off to their well-earned repose .
- You would not rob us of our repose , would you, comrades? You would not have us too tired to carry out our duties?
- So may thy lineage find at last repose I thus adjured him
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- Within a thicket I reposed .
- trap reposing on sand
- But these thy fortunes let us straight repose / In this divine cave's bosom.
- Pebbles reposed in those cliffs amongst the earth are left behind.
- The king reposeth all his confidence in thee.
- It is upon these that the soul may repose .