quiet down

1. 1.

   become quiet or quieter

   “The audience fell silent when the speaker entered”

   Synonymsquietenhushquietquiescepipe down

   Broaderchange intensity

Questions about quiet down

What does quiet down mean?

quiet down means "become quiet or quieter".

What is another word for quiet down?

Close synonyms include quieten, hush, quiet, quiesce, pipe down. 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 quiet down a common word?

quiet down is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.