as in sleepy
slow to move or act
a group of quiescent loungers recovering from the Thanksgiving feast
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Recent Examples of quiescent
But the astronomers suspect this kind of bursty young galaxy in the early universe may someday evolve into what's known as a massive quiescent galaxy in the modern-day cosmos.
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Paul Sutter, Space.com, 21 Nov. 2025
All of that water weight exerts a steady downward pressure, suppressing rifting and magma flow, and keeping the subterranean region relatively quiescent.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 12 Nov. 2025
The bottom line is that responsibility for today’s rising positive results for COVID-19 and other once quiescent ailments like pertussis runs directly through Kennedy and Trump.
—Thomas Elias, Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2025
Throughout most of modern history, it was thought that prudent government debt management involved bringing down the ratio of debt to GDP during quiescent periods of growth in order to store fiscal ammunition for the next crisis.
—Kenneth S. Rogoff, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
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Paul Sutter, Space.com, 21 Nov. 2025
All of that water weight exerts a steady downward pressure, suppressing rifting and magma flow, and keeping the subterranean region relatively quiescent.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 12 Nov. 2025
The bottom line is that responsibility for today’s rising positive results for COVID-19 and other once quiescent ailments like pertussis runs directly through Kennedy and Trump.
—Thomas Elias, Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2025
Throughout most of modern history, it was thought that prudent government debt management involved bringing down the ratio of debt to GDP during quiescent periods of growth in order to store fiscal ammunition for the next crisis.
—Kenneth S. Rogoff, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quiescent
Adjective
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Tucked into the sleepy hillside village of Agra, the home was originally commissioned as a vacation house for Milanese entrepreneur Luigi Cattaneo.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
13 May 2026
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Memory has been the biggest theme of late due to a global shortage that's driven up prices and turned Micron, a 47-year-old company tucked in a sleepy corner of the semiconductor market, into one of the hottest trades over the past 12 months.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
8 May 2026
Adjective
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The models that were correct in forecasting an active season in 2023, despite a strong El Niño, are this year calling for very strong wind shear, and thus a relatively inactive Atlantic hurricane season.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
16 May 2026
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He was removed from all ministry and placed on inactive status on August 3, 2018, as a result of a review and a recommendation by the Diocesan Clergy Review Board.—
Patrick Damp,
CBS News,
16 May 2026
Adjective
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As a result, people can become extremely apathetic, not motivated to do anything, and seemingly inert.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 May 2026
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Sadly, Luna’s inert fourth feature behind the camera, Ashes (Ceniza en la Boca), is unlikely to course-correct that faltering trajectory.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
Adjective
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Instead, we’re treated to a series of agonizingly torpid scenes in which Nita and her co-workers are incepted by the power of Adam’s fiction, which comes to assume the force of a self-fulfilling prophecy.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
14 May 2026
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Free money was great for stock-market investors, but Main Street’s recovery was torpid.—
Roger Lowenstein,
The Atlantic,
16 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The world of college football is rarely dull.—
Ian Miller OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
15 May 2026
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This charger brings interactivity and enthusiasm to this process that has been viewed as so dull for so long.—
Daniel Fusch,
USA Today,
14 May 2026
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“Quiescent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quiescent. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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