Quieten vs Quieter - What's the difference?
quieten | quieter |
(quiet)
One who quiets.
* 2001 , Robert Faggen, Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin (page 269)
As a verb quieten
is to make quiet.As an adjective quieter is
(quiet).As a noun quieter is
one who quiets.quieten
English
Usage notes
The use of "quieten" is not very common; the use of "quiet" as a verb is more often found.quieter
English
Adjective
(head)Noun
(en noun)- The motives that were previously so powerful now lose their force, and instead of them, the complete knowledge of the real nature of the world, acting as a quieter of the will, produces resignation