serene

Meanings

Adjective

• Peaceful, calm, unruffled.
• Without worry or anxiety; unaffected by disturbance.
• fair and unclouded (as of the sky); clear; unobscured.

Verb

• To make serene.

Noun

• Serenity; clearness; calmness.
• Evening air; night chill.
• A fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset.

Related

Similar words

• serein

Origin

• From Middle English, borrowed from Latin serēnus ("clear, cloudless, untroubled").
• Old French serein, Vulgar Latin *serānum (from substantive use of sērum, neuter of sērus) + -ānus suffix.