calm
Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
Adjective 4 meanings
Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
Free of noise and disturbance.
with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled.
Without wind or storm.
Noun 3 meanings
The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.
The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.
The absence of wind; a period of time without wind.
Verb 2 meanings
To make calm.
“to calm a crying baby”
To become calm.
Etymology
From Middle English calm, calme, from Middle French calme, probably from Old Italian calma, of uncertain origin. Calma may derive from Late Latin cauma (“heat of the midday sun”), from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma, “heat, especially of the sun”), from καίω (kaíō, “to burn”), or possibly from Latin caleō.
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CALM at a glance
CALM has 4 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (C 3 + A 1 + L 1 + M 3) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,718 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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