Unruffled

Definition: Unruffled

Unruffled

Adjective

1. Free from emotional agitation or nervous tension; "the waiters were unflurried and good natured"; "with contented mind and unruffled spirit"- Anthony Trollope.

2. Free from disturbance; "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".

Date "unruffled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1777. (references)

Note: Unruffled \Un*ruf"fled\, adjective. [Prefix un- not ruffled.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Unruffled

Synonyms: placid (adj), quiet (adj), still (adj), tranquil (adj), unflurried (adj), unflustered (adj), unperturbed (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Excitability	Temperate; (moderate); composed, collected; unexcited, unstirred, unruffled, undisturbed, unperturbed, unimpassioned; unoffended; unresisting.
Insensibility	Unaffected, unruffled, unimpressed, uninspired, unexcited, unmoved, unstirred, untouched, unshocked, unstruck; unblushing; (shameless); unanimated; vegetative.
Moderation	Adjective: moderate; lenient; gentle, mild, mellow; cool, sober, temperate, reasonable, measured; tempered; Verb: calm, unruffled, quiet, tranquil, still; slow, smooth, untroubled; tame; peaceful, peaceable; pacific, halcyon.
Quiescence	Adjective: quiescent, still; motionless, moveless; fixed; stationary; immotile; at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor; stock, still; standing still; Verb: sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home; becalmed, stagnant, quiet; unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled; calm, restful; cataleptic; immovable; (stable); sleeping; (inactive); silent; still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death; vegetative, vegetating.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unruffled

English words defined with "unruffled": coolness ♦ forbearing ♦ imperturbability, imperturbableness ♦ longanimous ♦ unflurried, unflustered, unperturbed. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unruffled": Halcyon Days. (references)

Author	Quotation
Thomas Jefferson	Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Unruffled" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unruffled" is used about 90 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	90	34,744

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "unruffled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i qetë (at ease, balanced, calm, canny, collected, comfortable, comfy, composed, cool, cool-headed, dispassionate, easeful, equable, even, even-minded, halcyon, laid back, level, level headed, mild, noiseless, orderly, Pacific, passionless, peaceable, peaceful, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, retired, secure, sedate, self possessed, serene, settled, silent, smooth, sober-blooded, stationary, still, stilly, tranquil, unconcern, unconcerned, uneventful), i lëmuar (ganoid, glace, glib, highbred, nice, polished, polite, refined, sleek, sleeken, sleeky, slick, smooth, smooth-faced, soft, waxy, well mannered). (various references)

Arabic		‏هادئ (calm, cloistered, composed, cool, dispassionate, easygoing, even, impassive, imperturbable, laid back, peaceable, peaceful, piping, placid, possessed, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, self possessed, serene, sober, steady, still, tranquil, undisturbed, uneventful, unflappable, unmoved, windless), ‏أملس (downy, lubricious, sleek, slick, smooth, soapy, unctuous). (various references)

Bulgarian		спокоен (arcadian, calm, clear, collected, contented, cool, dreamy, easeful, easy, equable, equal, even tempered, even-minded, halcyon, immovable, impassive, imperturbable, leisurely, level, nerveless, peaceful, philosophical, piping, placid, quiet, reposeful, restful, secure, sedate, self possessed, self-collected, settled, smooth, soft, staid, steady, steady-going, still, stirless, unalarmed, unbuttoned, unconcerned, undisturbed, uneventful, unflappable, unmolested, untroubled), гладък (clean, even, facile, flat, fluent, fluid, glace, level, lubricous, round, satiny, sleek, slick, smooth, unctuous), невъзмутим (doubtless, immovable, impassible, imperturbable, sedate, unabashed, unblinking, unflappable, unperturbed), пригладен (sleek). (various references)

Chinese		從容不迫 (calm), 安祥 (composed, serene). (various references)

Czech		nezèeřený, mírný (balmy, benign, easygoing, equable, genial, gentle, lamblike, lenient, light, meek, mild, moderate, placid, quiet, reasonable, slow, sober, soft, tame, temperate), hladký (even, facile, glassy, round, smooth, soft, straight, unlined), flegmatický (impassive, imperturbable, phlegmatic, stolid, unflappable). (various references)

Farsi		چین نخورده , صاف (Clear, Even, Explicit, Flat, Glossy, Limpid, Plain, Plane, Serene, Silken, Sleek, Slick), ارام کرده , ارام شده , ارام (Bland, Calm, Daft, Douce, Gentle, Hush, Imperturbable, Moderate, Pacific, Peaceable, Peaceful, Placid, Quiet, Sedate, Serene, Silent, Staid, Taciturn, Tranquil, Unblenched, Whist), بدون موج . (various references)

French		non ridé, lisse. (various references)

German		glatt (bland, clean, completely, cool, direct, downright, even, flat, flatly, glib, glibby, glossy, level, outright, plain, polished, really, sheer, silken, silky, sleek, slick, slickly, slippery, smooth, smoothly, suave, waveless), ruhig (calm, calmly, cold, collectedly, composed, composedly, easeful, easy, level, orderly, peaceable, peaceful, placid, placidly, quiescent, quiescently, quiet, quietly, relaxed, reposeful, restful, restfully, sedate, sedately, self-composed, serene, silent, smooth, smoothly, staid, steadily, steady, still, stilly, subdued, tranquil, tranquilly, uneventful, unexcited, unflustered, unharried, untroubled). (various references)

Greek		ατάραχοσ (composed, cool, imperturbable, sedate, self possessed, stolid, unabashed, unperturbed). (various references)

Hebrew		ר�'וע (at ease, calm, cool, placid, relaxation, relaxed, serene, tranquil). (various references)

Hungarian		csendes (calm, low, mum, Pacific, peaceful, quiescent, quiet, restful, sequestered, serene, silent, still, stilly, tranquil, whist). (various references)

Italian		imperturbato. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		澄ます (look prim, put on airs, to be unruffled, to clear, to look demure, to look unconcerned, to make clear). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		すます (look prim, put on airs, to be unruffled, to clear, to conclude, to finish, to get along, to get it over with, to look demure, to look unconcerned, to make clear, to pay back, to settle). (various references)

Pig Latin		uffledunray

Portuguese		tranquilo (calm, cool-headed, deep-seated, easeful, even-minded, half-light, orderly, pacific, passionless, peaceable, peaceful, peace-loving, piping, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, rested, restful, sedate, self-collected, self-possessed, settled, smooth, sober-blooded, still, stilly, tranquil, unconcerned, unperturbed, unstirred), sereno (calm, canny, composed, cool-headed, dew, even-minded, half-light, peaceable, peaceful, peace-loving, piping, placid, quiet, reposeful, restful, self-collected, self-possessed, serene, smooth, sober-blooded, staid, stilly, tranquil, unflappable, untroubled), liso (even-minded, flat, glossy, hard-up, lank, level, plain, plane, sleek, sleeky, slick, smooth), imperturbável (even-minded, stolid, unabashed, unflappable, unshakeable, unstirred), calmo (calm, collected, composed, cool, cool-headed, dispassionate, douce, even, even-minded, halcyon, half-light, imperturbable, irresponsive, leisurely, mild, noiseless, passionless, peaceable, peaceful, peace-loving, philosophic, philosophical, phlegmatic, placable, placid, plodder, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, sedate, self-collected, sequestered, serene, smooth, sober, sober-blooded, staid, still, stilly, tranquil, uneventful, unprovoked, unstirred, untroubled). (various references)

Romanian		senin (azure, broad, calm, clear, cloudless, fair, fine, happy, mild, peace, serene, serenity, shiny, tranquil, unclouded), neturburat (tranquil, untroubled), netulburat (unabashed, untroubled), liniştit (breathless, calm, calmly, comfortable, composed, cool, dead, dispassionate, easy, even, gentle, gently, gently-sloping, halcyon, imperturbable, in comfortable circumstances, mild, noiseless, orderly, Pacific, passive, peaceable, peaceful, peacefully, placid, placidly, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, secure, sedate, serene, silent, slow, smooth, sober, soft, still, tranquil, unabashed, untroubled), imperturbabil (imperturbable, imperturbably, passionless), calm (calm, calmly, calmness, collected, collectedness, composed, composure, cool, coolness, dispassionate, easily, easy, equal, equanimity, even, even tempered, evenness, genial, halcyon, lull, passionless, peace, peaceful, peacefully, phlegmatic, placid, placidity, poise, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, sedate, serene, serenity, silence, smooth, sober, sobriety, still, temper, tranquil, tranquillity, unhurried, untroubled). (various references)

Russian		гладкий (clean, even, glace, glassy, glib, lank, level, lubricous, sleek, sleeken, sleeky, slick, smooth), невзволнованный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neuznemiren (unconcerned, undisturbed, unperturbed), neuzbuđen. (various references)

Spanish		ecuánime (equable, equanimitory, even, even tempered, good tempered, level, relaxed). (various references)

Swedish		utan en krusning, oberörd (bland, imperturbable, unaffected, unimpressed, unmoved, untouched), lugn (calm, comfortable, comfy, composed, composure, cool, cool-headed, coolness, countenance, dispassionate, ease, easiness, easy, equability, equable, impassive, impassivity, imperturbability, imperturbable, leisurely, low pressure, orderly, peace, peaceful, philosophical, phlegm, placid, quiescence, quiescency, quiescent, quiet, quietness, quietude, repose, restful, sedate, self controlled, self possessed, sequestered, serene, serenity, sheltered, sobriety, tranquil, tranquility, tranquillity, undisturbed, unhurried), jämn (clean, consistent, equable, even, flat, level, plane, round, smooth, steady, uniform). (various references)

Turkish		telâşsız, sakin (airless, calm, citizen, comfortable, composed, composedly, dispassionate, domicilled, dweller, equal, even, even tempered, habitant, halcyon, hushed, imperturbable, in repose, indweller, inhabitant, inmate, laidback, local, nerveless, noiseless, Pacific, peaceable, peaceful, philosophic, philosophical, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, resident, sedate, serene, smooth, steady, still, tenant, tranquil, unperturbed, untroubled), durgun (airless, bovine, calm, depressed, ditch water, ditchwater, flat, halcyon, in the doldrums, inactive, languid, lifeless, placid, quiescent, quiet, serene, settled, slack, sleepy, stagnant, standing, static, still, stock-still, tranquil, untroubled, windless), düzgün (clear-cut, Dandy, dandyish, fluent, formal, in good trim, ordered, regular, right, shapely, shipshape, slick, smooth, Spruce, Square, straight, trim). (various references)

Ukrainian		спокійний (balanced, calm, canny, collected, composed, cool, cool-headed, deft, easeful, even-minded, halcyon, impassive, laidback, leisurable, orderly, placid, quiescent, quiet, relaxed, reposeful, restful, secure, sound, together, tranquil), гладкий (glabrous, glace, lubricious, napless, nonstriated, obese, pursy, silken, smooth-faced, voluble, waveless). (various references)

Vietnamese		trầm tĩnh (sedate, sober-minded, staid), mượt (silky), bình tĩnh (collected, composed, cool-headed, level-headed, self-collected, self-possessed, steady). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unruffled" (pronounced unru"fuld)
6	-r u" f u l d	ruffled.
5	-u" f u l d	muffled, reshuffled, scuffled, shuffled.
4	-f u l d	baffled, rifled, scaffold, stifled, waffled.
3	-u l d	addled, ambled, angled, annulled, assembled, babbled, backpedaled, barreled, battled, bedeviled, bedraggled, befuddled, belittled, bespectacled, bevelled, bicycled, boggled, bottled, bridled, bristled, bubbled, buckled, bundled, bungled, cabled, canceled, cancelled, channeled, chiseled, chortled, chronicled, chuckled, circled, cobbled, coddled, commingled, corbelled, counseled, coupled, crackled, credentialed, crippled, crumbled, crumpled, cuddled, cycled, dabbled, dangled, dazzled, dialed, dibbled, dimpled, disabled, disassembled, disgruntled, disheveled, dismantled, doubled, dribbled, dueled, dwindled, embattled, embezzled, emerald, empaneled, enabled, enameled, encircled, enfeebled, entangled, entitled, equaled, fabled, fiddled, fizzled, flanneled, fondled, frazzled, freckled, fueled, fuelled, fumbled, funneled, gambled, garbled, giggled, gobbled, grappled, grizzled, grumbled, haggled, handled, hassled, heckled, Herald, hobbled, huddled, humbled, hustled, idled, impaneled, imperiled, initialed, intermingled, jangled, jostled, juggled, jumbled, kindled, knuckled, labeled, labelled, ladled, leveled, levelled, libeled, mangled, manhandled, marbled, marshaled, marshalled, marveled, mingled, mishandled, mislabeled, modeled, mottled, muddled, mumbled, muscled, muzzled, needled, nestled, nettled, newfangled, nibbled, ogled, paddled, paneled, parceled, pedaled, pedalled, peddled, penciled, peopled, pickled, principled, pummeled, puzzled, quadrupled, quarreled, quintupled, rambled, rankled, rattled, raveled, reassembled, recycled, redoubled, refueled, rekindled, remodeled, resembled, resettled, reveled, riddled, rippled, rivaled, rumbled, rumpled, saddled, sampled, scrambled, scribbled, scuttled, settled, shackled, shoveled, shriveled, shuttled, signaled, signalled, singled, sizzled, smuggled, snarled, spangled, sparkled, speckled, spiraled, sprinkled, squabbled, squirreled, stapled, startled, stenciled, straddled, straggled, strangled, struggled, stumbled, subtitled, swindled, tabled, tackled, tangled, tasseled, tattled, throttled, tickled, tinkled, titled, toggled, toppled, totaled, totalled, trampled, traveled, travelled, trebled, trembled, trickled, tripled, troubled, trundled, tumbled, tussled, unbridled, unlabeled, unprincipled, unraveled, unrivaled, unsettled, unshackled, untrammeled, untroubled, wangled, whistled, whittled, widdled, wobbled, wrangled, wrestled, wrinkled.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-f-f-l-n-r-u-u"
	-1 letter: unfurled.
	-2 letters: ruffled, unruled.
	-3 letters: duffel, duffer, duffle, furled, luffed, nurled, refund, rueful, ruffed, ruffle, rundle, unfurl.
	-4 letters: flued, lured, nuder, ruffe, ruled, under, undue, unfed, unled.
	-5 letters: delf, duel, duff, dune, dure, durn, fend, fern, feud, fled, flue, fuel, fund, furl, lend, leud, lude, luff, lune, lure, nerd, nude, nurd, nurl, rend, rude, rued.
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