Synonyms of quietus

quietus

noun

kwī-ˈē-təs 

1

as in release

a freeing from an obligation or responsibility

was granted a quietus on the remainder of the debt in the old man's will

Synonyms & Similar Words

• release
• discharge
• exemption
• waiver
• delivery
• quittance
• immunity
• dispensation

2

as in death

the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities

her unshakable belief in a blissful afterlife allowed her to meet her quietus without the slightest tinge of fear or regret

Synonyms & Similar Words

• death
• fate
• demise
• doom
• passing
• decease
• dissolution
• sleep
• grave
• expiration
• curtains
• passage
• exit
• end
• expiry
• great divide
• suicide
• fatality
• assassination
• casualty
• destruction
• martyrdom
• annihilation
• execution
• ending
• extermination
• slaughter
• self-slaughter
• massacre
• killing
• self-murder
• ruin
• self-destruction

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• birth
• existence
• life
• nativity
• rise
• creation
• genesis
• origination

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of quietus

On the supply side, climate experts give him credit for suspending drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and for giving the final quietus to Keystone. — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 9 June 2021

If Berryman is playing Cassandra to himself, crying out the details of his own quietus, how did the cry begin? — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020

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