Quiescent \Qui*es"cent\, a. [L. quiescens, -entis, p. pr. of
   quiescere: cf. F. quiescent. See Quiesce.]
   1. Being in a state of repose; at rest; still; not moving;
      as, a quiescent body or fluid.
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   2. Not ruffed with passion; unagitated; not in action; not
      excited; quiet; dormant; resting.
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            In times of national security, the feeling of
            patriotism . . . is so quiescent that it seems
            hardly to exist.                      --Prof.
                                                  Wilson.
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   3. (Gram.) Not sounded; silent; as, y is quiescent in "day"
      and "say."
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	Quiescent \Qui*es"cent\, n. (Gram.)
   A silent letter. --M. Stuart.
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	quiescent
    adj 1: not active or activated; "the quiescent level of
           centimeter wave-length solar radiation"
    2: marked by a state of tranquil repose; "the quiescent
       melancholy of the town"
    3: being quiet or still or inactive
    4: (pathology) causing no symptoms; "a quiescent tumor"

	

	125 Moby Thesaurus words for "quiescent":
   abeyant, abiding, at a standstill, at rest, calm, changeless,
   cloistered, constant, contemplative, continuing, cool, do-nothing,
   dormant, durable, dwindling, ebbing, echoless, enduring,
   even-tenored, firm, fixed, frozen, halcyon, hush as death, hushed,
   idle, immobile, immutable, impassive, inactive, inaudible, inert,
   intact, inviolate, isolated, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, lasting,
   lurking, meditative, moldering, motionless, mousy, neuter, neutral,
   noiseless, pacific, paralytic, paralyzed, passive, peaceable,
   peaceful, permanent, perpetual, persistent, placid, potential,
   procrastinating, quiet, quietist, quietistic, remaining, reposeful,
   reposing, restful, resting, rigid, secluded, sedentary,
   sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered, silent, smooth, solid,
   soundless, stable, stagnant, stagnating, standpat, static,
   stationary, staying, steadfast, still, still as death, stillish,
   stilly, stoic, stolid, subaudible, subsiding, sustained, torpid,
   tranquil, unactive, unagitated, unaltered, unarticulated,
   unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, undestroyed,
   undisturbed, unfading, unfailing, unhearable, unmoved, unperturbed,
   unpronounced, unruffled, unshifting, unsounded, unstirring,
   untroubled, unuttered, unvaried, unvarying, unvocalized, unvoiced,
   vegetable, vegetative, waning, whist