Repose

Noun

 * 1)  rest, sleep
 * 2) * 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
 * Dark and deserted as it was, the night was full of small noises, song and chatter and rustling, telling of the busy little population who were up and about, plying their trades and vocations through the night till sunshine should fall on them at last and send them off to their well-earned repose.
 * 1) quietness, ease; peace, calmness
 * 2)  period between eruptions of a volcano.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:calmness

Verb

 * 1) To lay, to set down.
 * 2) To confide or entrust to someone.
 * 3) To reside in something.

Adjectives for Repose
soothing; calm; innocent; serene; undisturbed; sullen; delicious; charmed; noble; blissful; final; comforting; grave; irksome profitless; chronic; supreme; mental; stolid permanent; scornful; effeminate; statuesque long-coveted; profound; peaceful; solemn comparative; orbed; unreached; vile; languorous; dreamy; passionless; weak; healthful; everlasting; fathomless; equivocal; intellectual; infamous; exquisite; last; rheumatic; particular; spacious; exasperating; deep; echoless; fitful; indolent; placid; dull; sweet; dignified; complete; stupid; prolonged; cultivated; studied; momentary; outward; grave-like; grim; stern; thoughtful; reason-wrought; voluptuous.

Verbs for Repose
advocate—; disturb—; dwell in—; indulge in—; seek—; while away in—; —energizes; —frees; —lulls; —preserves; —refreshes; —relaxes ; —relieves ; —rests; —soothes; — stagnates; —stems; —vivifies.

Adverbs for Repose
lazily; soothingly; calmly; serenely; sullenly; deliciously; effeminately; profoundly; passionlessly; rheumatically; placidly; momentarily; voluptuously.

Thesaurus
abide, abide in, abnegation, abstinence, accubation, accumbency, ataraxia, ataraxy, be, be coextensive with, be comprised in, be constituted by, be contained in, be found, be located, be present in, be situated, be still, beauty sleep, bed, bed down, beddy-bye, bedtime, blanket drill, bye-bye, calm, calmness, catnap, coast, comfort, composure, confide in, conservatism, consist in, constraint, contemplation, continence, control, convenience, cool, couch, crawl, curl up, decumbency, deem trustworthy, depend on, deposit, dispassion, doze, dreamland, drowse, dwell in, ease, equanimity, evenness, exist in, fitful sleep, forty winks, free time, freedom, freeze, gentleness, go to bed, go to rest, golden mean, goof-off time, grovel, happy medium, hibernation, idle hours, impartiality, imperturbability, inactivity, inhabit, inhere in, judiciousness, juste-milieu, keep quiet, land of Nod, lay, lay down, leisure, lenity, lie, lie down, lie flat, lie in, lie limply, lie prone, lie prostrate, lie still, light sleep, lodge, loll, lounge, lounging, lucid stillness, lying, mark time, marmoreal repose, meden agan, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, nap, neutrality, nirvana, nonviolence, not breathe, not stir, nothing in excess, odd moments, pacifism, peace, peacefulness, place confidence in, placidity, placidness, poise, proneness, prostration, prudence, put down, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietism, quietness, quietude, reclination, recline, reclining, recumbency, refreshment, relaxation, rely on, remain, remain motionless, renewal, repose in, reposit, reside in, respite, rest, rest in, restfulness, restoration, restraint, retirement, satori, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial, self-possession, self-restraint, semiretirement, serenity, set down, settle to rest, shut-eye, siesta, silence, silken repose, sleep, sleepland, sleepwalking, slumber, slumberland, snooze, snoozle, snug down, sobriety, somnambulism, somniloquy, somnus, spare time, sprawl, stability, stand, stand fast, stand firm, stand still, stay, stay put, steadiness, stick, stick fast, stillness, stretch out, subsist in, supineness, take it easy, take life easy, tarry, temperance, temperateness, think reliable, time, time to kill, time to spare, tranquillity, tread water, trust, trust implicitly, trust in, unbuttoned ease, unconsciousness, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, via media, winter sleep, wise passiveness

Etymology
From <  <  repausare: <  re-: + pausare: < pausa: <  παῦσις:.

Noun

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 * Ido : repozo
 * Korean: 휴식 (hyusik)

Verb

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Verb
repose


 * 1) First-person singular indicative present form of reposer.
 * 2) Third-person singular indicative present form of reposer.
 * 3) Second-person singular imperative present form of reposer.
 * 4) First-person singular subjunctive present form of reposer.
 * 5) Third-person singular subjunctive present form of reposer.

Pronunciation




Anagrams

 * opères, opérés