quieten

Other forms of quieten

past tense

quietenned·

present participle

quietenning·

third person

quietens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about quieten

What does quieten mean?

quieten means "become quiet or quieter". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quieten?

quieten has 3 syllables and divides as qui-e-ten under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for quieten?

Close synonyms include hush, quiet, quiesce, quiet down, 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.

What is the opposite of quieten?

The recorded antonyms are louden, louden.

Is quieten a common word?

quieten 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.