| shut up | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. be quiet, belt up, button up, clam up, close up, dummy up, keep mum, shut up | refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent.; "The children shut up when their father approached" |
| v. (contact) | 2. lock, lock away, lock in, lock up, put away, shut away, shut up | place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape.; "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe" |
| ~ confine | prevent from leaving or from being removed. |
| v. (change) | 3. hush, hush up, quieten, shut up, silence, still | cause to be quiet or not talk.; "Please silence the children in the church!" |
| ~ shush | silence (someone) by uttering `shush!'. |
| ~ hush | become quiet or still; fall silent.; "hush my baby!" |
| ~ conquer, inhibit, stamp down, suppress, curb, subdue | to put down by force or authority.; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires" |
| ~ lull, calm down | become quiet or less intensive.; "the fighting lulled for a moment" |
| ~ shout down | silence or overwhelm by shouting. |
| ~ pipe down, quiesce, quiet, quiet down, quieten, hush | become quiet or quieter.; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered" |
| ~ gag, muzzle | prevent from speaking out.; "The press was gagged" |
| adj. | 4. pent, shut up | closely confined. |
| ~ confined | not free to move about. |
| quiet | | |
| n. (state) | 1. lull, quiet | a period of calm weather.; "there was a lull in the storm" |
| ~ calmness | an absence of strong winds or rain. |
| n. (state) | 2. quiet, tranquility, tranquillity | an untroubled state; free from disturbances. |
| ~ order | established customary state (especially of society).; "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order" |
| n. (attribute) | 3. quiet, silence | the absence of sound.; "he needed silence in order to sleep"; "the street was quiet" |
| ~ hush, stillness, still | (poetic) tranquil silence.; "the still of the night" |
| ~ speechlessness | the property of being speechless. |
| ~ quietness, soundlessness | the property of making no sound. |
| ~ sound property | an attribute of sound. |
| n. (attribute) | 4. placidity, quiet, repose, serenity, tranquility, tranquillity | a disposition free from stress or emotion. |
| ~ calm, calmness, composure, equanimity | steadiness of mind under stress.; "he accepted their problems with composure and she with equanimity" |
| ~ ataraxia | peace of mind. |
| v. (perception) | 5. hush, pipe down, quiesce, quiet, quiet down, quieten | become quiet or quieter.; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered" |
| ~ silence, hush, hush up, still, quieten, shut up | cause to be quiet or not talk.; "Please silence the children in the church!" |
| ~ change intensity | increase or decrease in intensity. |
| v. (emotion) | 6. calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize | make calm or still.; "quiet the dragons of worry and fear" |
| ~ lull | calm by deception.; "Don't let yourself be lulled into a false state of security" |
| ~ compose | calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet.; "She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult" |
| ~ appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate | cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of.; "She managed to mollify the angry customer" |
| ~ reassure, assure | cause to feel sure; give reassurance to.; "The airline tried to reassure the customers that the planes were safe" |
| ~ comfort, console, solace, soothe | give moral or emotional strength to. |
| adj. | 7. quiet | characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity.; "a quiet life"; "a quiet throng of onlookers"; "quiet peace-loving people"; "the factions remained quiet for almost 10 years" |
| ~ unagitated | not agitated or disturbed emotionally. |
| ~ peaceful, peaceable | not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war.; "a peaceful nation"; "peaceful times"; "a far from peaceful Christmas"; "peaceful sleep" |
| ~ quiescent | marked by a state of tranquil repose.; "the quiescent melancholy of the town" |
| ~ untroubled | free from turmoil or worries.; "untroubled times" |
| ~ tame | very restrained or quiet.; "a tame Christmas party"; "she was one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with no will or power to act but as directed" |
| adj. | 8. quiet | free of noise or uproar; or making little if any sound.; "a quiet audience at the concert"; "the room was dark and quiet" |
| ~ inaudible, unhearable | impossible to hear; imperceptible by the ear.; "an inaudible conversation" |
| ~ soft | (of sound) relatively low in volume.; "soft voices"; "soft music" |
| ~ noiseless | making no sound.; "th' inaudible and noiseless foot of time" |
| ~ silent, soundless, still | marked by absence of sound.; "a silent house"; "soundless footsteps on the grass"; "the night was still" |
| ~ stilly | (poetic) still or calm.; "in the stilly night" |
| ~ tiptoe | walking on the tips of ones's toes so as to make no noise.; "moving with tiptoe steps" |
| adj. | 9. quiet, restrained | not showy or obtrusive.; "clothes in quiet good taste" |
| ~ unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious | not ostentatious.; "his unostentatious office"; "unostentatious elegance" |
| adj. | 10. hushed, muted, quiet, subdued | in a softened tone.; "hushed voices"; "muted trumpets"; "a subdued whisper"; "a quiet reprimand" |
| ~ soft | (of sound) relatively low in volume.; "soft voices"; "soft music" |
| adj. | 11. placid, quiet, smooth, still, tranquil, unruffled | (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves.; "a ribbon of sand between the angry sea and the placid bay"; "the quiet waters of a lagoon"; "a lake of tranquil blue water reflecting a tranquil blue sky"; "a smooth channel crossing"; "scarcely a ripple on the still water"; "unruffled water" |
| ~ calm | (of weather) free from storm or wind.; "calm seas" |
| adj. | 12. quiet | of the sun characterized by a low level of surface phenomena like sunspots e.g.. |
| ~ astronomy, uranology | the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole. |
| adv. | 13. quiet, quietly | with little or no activity or no agitation (`quiet' is a nonstandard variant for `quietly').; "her hands rested quietly in her lap"; "the rock star was quietly led out the back door"; "sit here as quiet as you can" |
| silent | | |
| adj. | 1. silent, soundless, still | marked by absence of sound.; "a silent house"; "soundless footsteps on the grass"; "the night was still" |
| ~ quiet | free of noise or uproar; or making little if any sound.; "a quiet audience at the concert"; "the room was dark and quiet" |
| adj. | 2. mum, silent | failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to.; "the witness remained silent" |
| ~ incommunicative, uncommunicative | not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions. |
| adj. | 3. silent, tacit, understood | implied by or inferred from actions or statements.; "gave silent consent"; "a tacit agreement"; "the understood provisos of a custody agreement" |
| ~ implicit, inexplicit | implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something.; "an implicit agreement not to raise the subject"; "there was implicit criticism in his voice"; "anger was implicit in the argument"; "the oak is implicit in the acorn" |
| adj. | 4. silent, unsounded | not made to sound.; "the silent `h' at the beginning of `honor'"; "in French certain letters are often unsounded" |
| ~ inaudible, unhearable | impossible to hear; imperceptible by the ear.; "an inaudible conversation" |
| adj. | 5. silent | having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility.; "a silent dog whistle" |
| ~ inaudible, unhearable | impossible to hear; imperceptible by the ear.; "an inaudible conversation" |
| adj. | 6. dumb, mute, silent | unable to speak because of hereditary deafness. |
| ~ inarticulate, unarticulate | without or deprived of the use of speech or words.; "inarticulate beasts"; "remained stupidly inarticulate and saying something noncommittal"; "inarticulate with rage"; "an inarticulate cry" |
| hush | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. hush, still, stillness | (poetic) tranquil silence.; "the still of the night" |
| ~ silence, quiet | the absence of sound.; "he needed silence in order to sleep"; "the street was quiet" |
| ~ poesy, poetry, verse | literature in metrical form. |
| v. (change) | 2. hush | become quiet or still; fall silent.; "hush my baby!" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| v. (change) | 3. hush | wash by removing particles.; "Wash ores" |
| ~ mining, excavation | the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth. |
| ~ lave, wash | cleanse (one's body) with soap and water. |
| v. (change) | 4. hush | run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals. |
| ~ mining, excavation | the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth. |
| ~ irrigate, water | supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams.; "Water the fields" |
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