serene

Definition

Calm, peaceful, unruffled.

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Latin serēnus (“clear, cloudless, untroubled”).

Example Sentences

• "She looked at her students with joviality and a serene mentality."
• "Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers."
• "I took train and reached Wichita, where my active partner was awaiting me. He had just returned from the Medicine River, and reported everything serene."