UNRUFFLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unruffled mean? 

• UNRUFFLED (adjective)
  The adjective UNRUFFLED has 2 senses:

1. free from emotional agitation or nervous tension

2. (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves

  Familiarity information: UNRUFFLED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNRUFFLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Free from emotional agitation or nervous tension

Synonyms:

unflurried; unflustered; unperturbed; unruffled

Context example:

with contented mind and unruffled spirit

Similar:

composed (serenely self-possessed and free from agitation especially in times of stress)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves

Synonyms:

placid; quiet; smooth; still; tranquil; unruffled

Context example:

unruffled water

Similar:

calm ((of weather) free from storm or wind)

 Context examples 

The last thing I saw was Littimer's unruffled eye; fraught, as I fancied, with the silent conviction that I was very young indeed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I glanced about the room, which had had its sanded floor sanded, no doubt, in exactly the same manner when the chief waiter was a boy—if he ever was a boy, which appeared improbable; and at the shining tables, where I saw myself reflected, in unruffled depths of old mahogany; and at the lamps, without a flaw in their trimming or cleaning; and at the comfortable green curtains, with their pure brass rods, snugly enclosing the boxes; and at the two large coal fires, brightly burning; and at the rows of decanters, burly as if with the consciousness of pipes of expensive old port wine below; and both England, and the law, appeared to me to be very difficult indeed to be taken by storm.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)