VERBS
- appear, be, feel, look, seem, sound
- I may have appeared calm but I certainly didn't feel it
- become
- keep, remain, stay
- Sit down and keep calm! The pilot urged the passengers to remain calm
- keep sb
- Keep the patient calm
ADV
- extremely, remarkably, very
- You seem remarkably calm
- completely, perfectly, utterly
- Her voice was firm and perfectly calm
- fairly, pretty, quite
- apparently, outwardly
- curiously, strangely
- The pain had receded and he felt curiously calm
- reassuringly
- The voice sounded reassuringly calm
PREP
- about
- She seemed pretty calm about it
PHRASES
- cool, calm and collected
- He remained at all times cool, calm and collected
ADV
- absolutely, dead, flat, perfectly
- The sea was dead calm. flat calm conditions
- fairly, quite, relatively
ADJ
- apparent
- Under his apparent calm lay real anxiety
- inner
- the pursuit of inner calm
- uneasy
- forced, studied
- With a forced calm she said, 'How do you know?'
- dead
- She felt not fear, but a kind of dead calm
- deadly, icy
- ' I'm calling the police, ' he stated with deadly calm
VERB + CALM
- appeal for, call for
- The government appealed for calm after the riots broke out
CALM + VERB
- descend, settle
- After the bomb, an uneasy calm settled on the city
ADJ
- dead, flat
- Seals basked on boulders in a flat calm