Antonyms for quietude

Grammar : Noun

Spell : kwahy-i-tood, -tyood

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkwaɪ ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud

Definition of quietude

Origin : 1590s, from Middle French quiétude (c.1500) or directly from Late Latin quietudo, from Latin quietus (see quiet (n.)).

noun calm

Example sentences :

Before him was smiling country, streaming with sunshine, lazy with quietude.
Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London

He felt a vacancy in him, a need for the hush and quietude of the stream and the cave in the cliff.
Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London

From the night of the 8th to the morning of the 11th there was an interval of quietude.
Extract from : « Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman » by J. H. (James Harvey) Kidd

She improved in the quietude and restfulness of that beloved place.
Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine

And this time, following the hush, it seemed to exercise the devil of quietude.
Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1920 » by Various

But there is no noisy clatter of the cars to break the quietude.
Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 » by Various

I could excuse myself from dinner and thus secure an hour's quietude.
Extract from : « Ernest Linwood » by Caroline Lee Hentz

When I get back to Boulge I shall recover my quietude which is now all in a ripple.
Extract from : « Letters of Edward FitzGerald » by Edward FitzGerald

There was a quietude over it that seemed the peace of death.
Extract from : « Trail's End » by George W. Ogden

Plaistow is on the road to nowhere and has not its equal for quietude in England.
Extract from : « Highways & Byways in Sussex » by E.V. Lucas

Synonyms for quietude

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