quiet

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noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ relative

▪

a period of comparative quiet

▪ sudden

▪ awful, eerie

VERB + QUIET

▪ break (esp. AmE), pierce (esp. AmE), shatter

▪

A machine gun shattered the quiet.

QUIET + VERB

▪ follow

▪

in the sudden quiet that followed the gunshot

PHRASES

▪ peace and quiet

▪

I'm going home now for a bit of peace and quiet!

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verb

Quiet is used with these nouns as the object: ↑mind

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adj.

1 with little or no noise; not talking

VERBS

▪ be

▪ become, fall, go, grow

▪ keep, lie, remain, sit, stay

▪

Just sit quiet for a moment, there's a good boy.

▪ keep sb/sth

▪

Keep that dog quiet, will you!

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ all

▪

Suddenly the room went all quiet.

▪ awfully, remarkably, unusually

▪

Everyone went awfully quiet.

▪ absolutely, completely, perfectly

▪ deathly, eerily

▪

The house was eerily quiet.

▪ dangerously

▪

His voice was dangerously quiet as he asked the question.

▪ oddly, strangely, unnaturally

▪

She went back to a strangely quiet house.

▪ surprisingly, uncharacteristically

PREPOSITION

▪ about

▪

I knew I had to keep quiet about it.

PHRASES

▪ nice (and) quiet

▪

I was looking forward to a nice quiet afternoon.

2 without much activity

VERBS

▪ be, look, seem

▪ become

▪ lie, remain, sit

▪

Lie quiet for an hour and you'll feel better.

▪ keep sb/sth

▪

Keep the patient as quiet as possible.

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ reasonably (esp. BrE), relatively

▪ enough

▪

Things seemed quiet enough, but it was an uneasy calm.

Quiet is used with these nouns: ↑amusement, ↑assurance, ↑celebration, ↑ceremony, ↑charm, ↑chat, ↑chuckle, ↑click, ↑confidence, ↑confines, ↑contemplation, ↑contentment, ↑conversation, ↑corner, ↑countryside, ↑day, ↑desperation, ↑determination, ↑dignity, ↑dinner, ↑diplomacy, ↑drink, ↑enjoyment, ↑evening, ↑existence, ↑groan, ↑knock, ↑lane, ↑laughter, ↑life, ↑man, ↑manner, ↑meditation, ↑menace, ↑moan, ↑moment, ↑morning, ↑murmur, ↑music, ↑neighbourhood, ↑night, ↑passage, ↑place, ↑pleasure, ↑prayer, ↑read, ↑reflection, ↑resignation, ↑retreat, ↑revolution, ↑road, ↑room, ↑satisfaction, ↑seclusion, ↑serenity, ↑sigh, ↑sob, ↑solitude, ↑spell, ↑spot, ↑street, ↑suburb, ↑surroundings, ↑tone, ↑trading, ↑type, ↑village, ↑voice, ↑week, ↑whisper, ↑word

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adv.

Quiet is used with these verbs: ↑sleep