lull
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished
there was never a letup in the noise
Types & categories
- pause hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
calm by deception
Don't let yourself be lulled into a false state of security
Types & categories
- still hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
a period of calm weather
there was a lull in the storm
Types & categories
- calmness hypernym
Related & opposite
- lull derivation
Sense 4 verb
become quiet or less intensive
the fighting lulled for a moment
Types & categories
- silence hypernym
Related & opposite
- lull derivation
Sense 5 verb
make calm or still
quiet the dragons of worry and fear
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- commove antonym
- tranquilizer derivation
- serenity derivation
- hush derivation
- lull derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | ease off |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | let up |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | lull |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | lull |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | still |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | pause |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | quiet |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | lull |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | still |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | lull |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | calmness |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | lull |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | silence |
| 5 | antonym | Related & opposite | commove |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | tranquilizer |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | serenity |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | hush |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | lull |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | comfort |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | lull |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | compose |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | assuage |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | reassure |