UNRUFFLED DEFINITIONS - 9 definitions found
unruffled adj 1: free from emotional agitation or nervous tension; "the waiters were unflurried and good natured"; "with contented mind and unruffled spirit"- Anthony Trollope [syn: unflurried, unflustered, unperturbed, unruffled] 2: (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves; "a ribbon of sand between the angry sea and the placid bay"; "the quiet waters of a lagoon"; "a lake of tranquil blue water reflecting a tranquil blue sky"; "a smooth channel crossing"; "scarcely a ripple on the still water"; "unruffled water" [syn: placid, quiet, still, tranquil, smooth, unruffled] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) unruffled adjective Date: 1659 1. poised and serene especially in the face of setbacks or confusion 2. not ruffled ; smooth <unruffled water> Synonyms: see cool Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary unruffled If you describe someone as unruffled, you mean that they are calm and do not seem to be affected by surprising or frightening events. = unperturbed ADJ English Explanatory Dictionary unruffled ˈʌnˈrʌfld adj. 1 not agitated or disturbed; calm. 2 not physically ruffled. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Unruffled \Un*ruf"fled\, a. [Pref. un- not + ruffled.] Not ruffled or agitated; smooth; calm; tranquil; quiet. Calm and unruffled as a summer's sea. --Addison. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms unruffled a. 1. Calm, tranquil, quiet, still, placid, peaceful, serene, smooth. 2. Placid, peaceful, philosophical, collected, serene, unmoved, imperturbable, composed, cool, undisturbed, calm, tranquil. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 109 Moby Thesaurus words for "unruffled": accordant, alike, at rest, automatic, balanced, calm, cloistered, collected, composed, consistent, consonant, constant, continuous, cool, correspondent, downy, dwindling, ebbing, equable, equal, even, even-tenored, flat, glabrate, glabrescent, glabrous, halcyon, homogeneous, hushed, immutable, impassive, imperturbable, invariable, isolated, leiotrichous, level, measured, mechanical, methodic, moldering, monolithic, nonchalant, of a piece, ordered, orderly, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, persistent, placid, plane, quiescent, quiet, regular, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, robotlike, secluded, sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered, smooth, smooth-shaven, smooth-textured, stable, steadfast, steady, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, suave, subsiding, systematic, tranquil, unaffected, unagitated, unanimated, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, undeviating, undifferentiated, undisturbed, undiversified, unexcited, unflappable, unflustered, uniform, unimpassioned, unimpressed, uninspired, unmoved, unperturbed, unrough, unroughened, unstirred, unstirring, unstruck, untouched, untroubled, unvaried, unvarying, waning |
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