Definitions for quietude

quietude qui·e·tude

Spelling: [kwahy-i-tood, -tyood]
IPA: /ˈkwaɪ ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud/

Quietude is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in quietude (deeiqtuu).

Definitions for quietude

noun

  1. the state of being quiet; tranquillity; calmness; stillness; quiet.

Origin of quietude

1590-1600; Late Latin quiētudō, derivative of Latin quiētus quiet2; see -tude

Examples for quietude

And this time, following the hush, it seemed to exercise the devil of quietude.

Before him was smiling country, streaming with sunshine, lazy with quietude.

She improved in the quietude and restfulness of that beloved place.

When I get back to Boulge I shall recover my quietude which is now all in a ripple.

I could excuse myself from dinner and thus secure an hour's quietude.

From the night of the 8th to the morning of the 11th there was an interval of quietude.

He felt a vacancy in him, a need for the hush and quietude of the stream and the cave in the cliff.

But there is no noisy clatter of the cars to break the quietude.

Plaistow is on the road to nowhere and has not its equal for quietude in England.

There was a quietude over it that seemed the peace of death.

Word Value for quietude
Scrable

18

Words with friends

20

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