Translation
quiet, soft, faint
Examples
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She answered in a quiet voice.
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The music was soft and pleasant.
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He spoke quietly, so as not to wake the child.
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I heard a faint sound behind the door.
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Turn the music down!
Three words crowd around English quiet and they are not interchangeable. is about volume - a sound exists, it is simply low. means there is no sound at all. is about calm rather than decibels, so a quiet afternoon in the country is , not . The verb pair is i to turn something down and i to grow fainter of its own accord, and that -- versus -- distinction is worth drilling here because the two turn up constantly.
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