at rest

Questions about at rest

What does at rest mean?

at rest means "in a state of repose or especially sleep". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for at rest?

Close synonyms include asleep, at peace, deceased, departed, gone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is at rest a common word?

at rest is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.