"quietsome" meaning in English

See quietsome in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more quietsome [comparative], most quietsome [superlative]
Etymology: From quiet + -some. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|quiet|some}} quiet + -some Head templates: {{en-adj}} quietsome (comparative more quietsome, superlative most quietsome)
  1. (archaic) Characterised or marked by quietness; calm; still; tranquil Tags: archaic Synonyms: stillsome
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "quiet",
        "3": "some"
      },
      "expansion": "quiet + -some",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From quiet + -some.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more quietsome",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most quietsome",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "quietsome (comparative more quietsome, superlative most quietsome)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -some",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1810 (original 1595), Edmund Spenser, John Aikin, Hymns. Visions. Elegiac poems",
          "text": "Let no false treason seek us to entrap, / Nor any dread disquiet once annoy / The safety of our joy; / But let the night be calm and quietsome, / Without tempestuous storms or sad affray, / Like as when Jove with fair Alcmena lay, …"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Characterised or marked by quietness; calm; still; tranquil"
      ],
      "id": "en-quietsome-en-adj-M0jzW5-x",
      "links": [
        [
          "quietness",
          "quietness"
        ],
        [
          "calm",
          "calm"
        ],
        [
          "still",
          "still"
        ],
        [
          "tranquil",
          "tranquil"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Characterised or marked by quietness; calm; still; tranquil"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "stillsome"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "quietsome"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "quiet",
        "3": "some"
      },
      "expansion": "quiet + -some",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From quiet + -some.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more quietsome",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most quietsome",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "quietsome (comparative more quietsome, superlative most quietsome)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -some",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1810 (original 1595), Edmund Spenser, John Aikin, Hymns. Visions. Elegiac poems",
          "text": "Let no false treason seek us to entrap, / Nor any dread disquiet once annoy / The safety of our joy; / But let the night be calm and quietsome, / Without tempestuous storms or sad affray, / Like as when Jove with fair Alcmena lay, …"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Characterised or marked by quietness; calm; still; tranquil"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "quietness",
          "quietness"
        ],
        [
          "calm",
          "calm"
        ],
        [
          "still",
          "still"
        ],
        [
          "tranquil",
          "tranquil"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Characterised or marked by quietness; calm; still; tranquil"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "stillsome"
    }
  ],
  "word": "quietsome"
}

Download raw JSONL data for quietsome meaning in English (1.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (aeaf2a1 and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.