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Tranquil vs Harmonious - What's the difference?

tranquil | harmonious |

As adjectives the difference between tranquil and harmonious

is that tranquil is free from emotional or mental disturbance while harmonious is showing accord in feeling or action.

tranquil

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Free from emotional or mental disturbance.
  • * 1847 , , chapter XXVIII
    • Some time passed before I felt tranquil even here: I had a vague dread that wild cattle might be near, or that some sportsman or poacher might discover me.
  • Calm; without motion or sound.
  • * 1921 , Douglas Wilson Johnson, Battlefields of the World War, Western and Southern Fronts: A Study in Military Geography , page 262
    • that the streams which did form were clear and tranquil' because fed by perennial springs from the underground supply; and that in their ' tranquil waters extensive peat bogs formed.

    Synonyms

    * (free from emotional disturbance) calm, peaceful, serene, steady * peaceful

    Antonyms

    * (free from emotional disturbance) agitated

    Related terms

    * tranquillity * tranquillize * tranquilly * tranquilness

    harmonious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showing accord in feeling or action.
  • Having components pleasingly or appropriately combined.
  • Melodious; in harmony.

    • Derived terms

    * harmoniously * harmoniousness

    See also

    * disharmonious