Roget's Thesaurus

#265. Quiescence

Nouns

rest; stillness etc. adj.; quiescence; stagnation, stagnancy; fixity, immobility, catalepsy; indisturbance; quietism. quiet, tranquility, calm; repose etc. 687; peace; dead calm, anticyclone; statue-like repose; silence etc. 203; not a breath of air, not a mouse stirring; sleep etc. (inactivity) 683. pause, lull etc. (cessation) 142; stand still; standing still etc. v.; lock; dead lock, dead stop, dead stand; full stop; fix; embargo. resting place; gite [Fr.]; bivouac; home etc. (abode) 189; pillow etc. (support) 215; haven etc. (refuge) 666; goal etc. (arrival) 292.

Verbs

be quiescent etc. adj.; stand still, lie still; keep quiet, repose, hold the breath. remain, stay; stand, lie to, ride at anchor, remain in situ, tarry, mark time; bring to, heave to, lay to; pull up, draw up; hold, halt; stop, stop short; rest, pause, anchor; cast to an anchor, come to an anchor; rest on one's oars; repose on one's laurels, take breath; stop etc. (discontinue) 142. stagnate; quieta non movere [Lat.]; let alone; abide, rest and be thankful; keep within doors, stay at home, go to bed. dwell etc. (be present) 186; settle etc. (be located) 184; alight etc. (arrive) 292; stick, stick fast; stand like a post; not stir a peg, not stir a step; be at a stand etc. n.. quell, becalm, hush, stay, lull to sleep, lay an embargo on.

Adjectives

quiescent, still; motionless, moveless; fixed; stationary; immotile; at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor; stock, still; standing still etc. v.; sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home; becalmed, stagnant, quiet; unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled; calm, restful; cataleptic; immovable etc. (stable) 150; sleeping etc. (inactive) 683; silent etc. 403; still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death; vegetative, vegetating.

Adverbs

at a stand etc. adj.; tout court; at the halt.

Interjections

stop!, stay!, avast!, halt!, hold hard!, whoa!, hold!, sabr karo!.

Phrases

requiescat in pace [Lat.]; Deus nobis haec otia fecit [Lat.] [Vergil]; the noonday quiet holds the hill [Tennyson].