Steadiness of mind under stress.

synonyms: calmness, composure, equanimity.

Roget 721: peace; amity etc. (friendship) 888; harmony etc. (concord) 714; tranquility, calm etc. (quiescence) 265; truce, peace treaty, accord etc. (pacification) 723; peace pipe, pipe of peace, calumet of peace.    piping time of peace, quiet life; neutrality.    [symbol of peace] dove of peace, white dove.    [person who favors peace] dove.    pax Romana [Lat.]; Pax Americana [Lat.].    ... show more

Roget 265: 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.    ... show more

Dutch: gelijkmoedigheid, gelatenheid, kalmte, zelfbeheersing, beheersing, bedaardheid
Polish: opanowanie

Wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale.

synonym: calm air.

Polish: cisza

Make calm or still.

synonyms: calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize.

Roget 174: be moderate etc. adj.; keep within bounds, keep within compass; sober down, settle down; keep the peace, remit, relent, take in sail.    moderate, soften, mitigate, temper, accoy^†; attemper^†, contemper^†; mollify, lenify^†, dulcify^†, dull, take off the edge, blunt, obtund^†, sheathe, subdue, chasten; sober down, tone down, smooth down; weaken etc. 160; lessen etc. (decrease) 36; check palliate.    tranquilize, pacify, assuage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose, still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame, damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep, deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off; slake; curb etc. (restrain) 751; tame etc. (subjugate) 749; smooth over; pour oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters; pour balm into, mattre de l'eau dans son vin [Fr.].    go out like a lamb, roar you as gently as any sucking dove" [Midsummer-Night's Dream]. ... show more

Roget 616: dissuade, dehort^†, cry out against, remonstrate, expostulate, warn, contraindicate.    disincline, indispose, shake, stagger; dispirit; discourage, dishearten; deter; repress, hold back, keep back etc. (restrain) 751; render averse etc. 603; repel; turn aside etc. (deviation) 279; wean from; act as a drag etc. (hinder) 706; throw cold water on, damp, cool, chill, blunt, calm, quiet, quench; deprecate etc. 766.    disenchant, disillusion, deflate, take down a peg, pop one's balloon, prick one's balloon, burst one's bubble; disabuse (correction) 527.1. ... show more

Make steady.

synonyms: becalm, steady.

Become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation.

synonyms: calm down, chill out, cool it, cool off, settle down, simmer down.

Dutch: afkoelen, bedaren, dimmen, kalmeren

Cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to.

synonyms: sedate, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize.

Dutch: kalmeren

Not agitated; without losing self-possession:
— Spoke in a calm voice.
— Remained calm throughout the uproar.

synonyms: serene, tranquil, unagitated.

Roget 826: inexcitable^†, unexcitable; imperturbable; unsusceptible etc. (insensible) 823; unpassionate^†, dispassionate; cold-blooded, irritable; enduring etc. v.; stoical, Platonic, philosophic, staid, stayed; sober, sober minded; grave; sober as a judge, grave as a judge; sedate, demure, cool-headed.    easy-going, peaceful, placid, calm; quiet as a mouse; tranquil, serene; cool as a cucumber, cool as a custard; undemonstrative.    temperate etc. (moderate) 174; composed, collected; unexcited, unstirred, unruffled, undisturbed, unperturbed, unimpassioned; unoffended^†; unresisting.    meek, tolerant; patient, patient as Job; submissive etc. 725; tame; content, resigned, chastened, subdued, lamblike^†; gentle as a lamb; suaviter in modo [Lat.]; mild as mothers milk; soft as peppermint; armed with patience, bearing with, clement, long-suffering.    ... show more

Roget 213: horizontal, level, even, plane; flat etc. 251; flat as a billiard table, flat as a bowling green; alluvial; calm, calm as a mill pond; smooth, smooth as glass.    recumbent, decumbent, procumbent, accumbent^†; lying etc. v.; prone, supine, couchant, jacent^†, prostrate, recubant^†.    ... show more

Roget 721: pacific; peaceable, peaceful; calm, tranquil, untroubled, halcyon; bloodless; neutral.    dovish

Roget 685: leisure, leisurely; slow etc. 275; deliberate, quiet, calm, undisturbed; at leisure, at one's ease, at loose ends, at a loose end.   

Roget 265: 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.    ... show more

Roget 174: moderate; lenient etc. 740; gentle, mild, mellow; cool, sober, temperate, reasonable, measured; tempered etc. v.; calm, unruffled, quiet, tranquil, still; slow, smooth, untroubled; tame; peaceful, peaceable; pacific, halcyon.    unexciting, unirritating^†; soft, bland, oily, demulcent, lenitive, anodyne; hypnotic etc. 683; sedative; antiorgastic^†, anaphrodisiac^†.    mild as mother's milk; milk and water.    ... show more

Polish: spokojny

of weather Free from storm or wind.