Meaning

3 senses
  1. Inactive, quiet, at rest.

    The bats were quiescent at that time of day, so we slowly entered the cave.

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    неподви́жныйnepodvížnyj, споко́йныйspokójnyj

    being quiet or still or inactive

  2. Not sounded; silent.

    The k is quiescent in "knight" and "know".

  3. Non-proliferating.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. The patient remained quiescent, showing no signs of distress or movement.

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  2. His normally quiescent demeanor hid a storm of ideas beneath the surface.

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  3. The volcano had been quiescent for centuries, but scientists still monitored it closely.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
Inactive, at rest, quiet:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
Inactive, at rest, quiet:

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin quiēscēns, quiēscentem.

Learned borrowing from Latin quiēscēns, quiēscentem.

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