quietus

Speech parts

1. quietus - Noun

2. quietus - Adjective

Meaning

Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

rest sleep eternal sleep eternal rest end death loss release doom ending passing destruction finish departure fate
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Antonyms

bow-wow time life babble arrival resurrection
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Hypernyms

death

Related terms

quiet quiescence quietude

Phrases with the word

give the quietus

Examples

Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be. Jenkin Lloyd Jones

she was laid to rest beside her husband Source: Internet

they had to put their family pet to sleep Source: Internet

There he "discovered" a conspiracy involving four leading Senators including Lusius Quietus and demanded of the Senate their deaths. Source: Internet

The two Macriani left Quietus, Ballista, and, presumably, Odenathus to deal with the Persians while they invaded Europe with an army of 30,000 men, according to the Historia Augusta. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

quietness quietsome quietude quifenadine quiff quiffed