quietsome

quietsome

English

Etymology

From quiet +‎ -some.

Adjective

quietsome (comparative more quietsome, superlative most quietsome)

1. (archaic) Characterised or marked by quietness; calm; still; tranquil
   • 1810 (original 1595), Edmund Spenser, ‎John Aikin, Hymns. Visions. Elegiac poems:

     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, [...]

Synonyms

• stillsome

Anagrams

• semi-quote, semiquote