Calm Kɑːm Appealed Police Flat Time Uneasy Noun

• the calm of a summer evening
• the police appealed for calm.
• they landed in a flat calm.
• her previous calm gave way to terror.

calm

1. a quiet and peaceful time or situation
• the calm of a summer evening
• The police appealed for calm.
2. a time when there is no wind
• They landed in a flat calm.
3. a quiet and relaxed manner
• Her previous calm gave way to terror.
• Alex spoke with studied calm.
• There was a short period of uneasy calm after the riot.
• She spoke with icy calm.
• We admired his calmness under pressure.
4. a calm time immediately before an expected period of violent activity or argument

Extra Examples

• ‘I’m calling the police!’ he stated with deadly calm.
• After the bomb, an uneasy calm settled on the city.
• Calm had been restored to the capital.
• He struggled to maintain his calm as they waited.
• Seals basked on boulders in a flat calm.
• She felt not fear, but a kind of dead calm.
• The calm was shattered by the sound of an explosion.
• The government appealed for calm after the riots broke out.
• The water was a dead calm.
• Under his apparent calm lay real anxiety.
• With a forced calm she said, ‘How do you know?’
• the pursuit of inner calm
• An uneasy calm descended on the streets.
• Many children regarded their school as an oasis of calm away from the war-torn streets.
• The elections took place in an atmospere of relative calm.
• The police appealed for calm.
• We sat together for a while in the calm of the evening.
• We took this to be the calm before the storm.

Word Origin

• late Middle English: via one of the Romance languages from Greek kauma ‘heat (of the day)’.