serene – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of serene

Adjective: serene

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativeserener
Superlativeserenest

Perifrastic

Comparativemore serene
Superlativemost serene

Sample 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. [1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 6:]
  • 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. [1908, Andy Adams, Reed Anthony, Cowman:]
  • Now ſleeping flocks on their ſoft fleeces lie, / The moon, ſerene in glory, mounts the sky, […] [1717, Alexander Pope, “Winter. The Fourth Pastoral. […]”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], →OCLC, page 30:]
  • Full many a gem of pureſt ray ſerene / The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: […] [1750 June 12 (date written; published 1751), T[homas] Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, in Designs by Mr. R[ichard] Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], published 1753, →OCLC, page 32:]
  • A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy. [1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VI, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:]
  • Her Serene Highness

Adjectives inflected like serene

serene, severe, secure, sedate, wheelie, simple, complete, fulsome, sprightlie, discrete, plosive, bizarre, brusque, brittle, wholesome, sincere, shystie, loveable, prophane, terrible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

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