ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

easy-going, peaceful, placid, calm; quiet as a mouse; tranquil, serene; cool as a
cucumber, cool as a custard; undemonstrative.
temperate &c (moderate) 174; composed, collected; unexcited, unstirred, unruffled,
undisturbed, unperturbed, unimpassioned; unoffended † ; unresisting.
meek, tolerant; patient, patient as Job; submissive &c 725; tame; content, resigned,
chastened, subdued, lamblike † ; gentle as a lamb; suaviter in modo [Lat.]; mild as mothers
milk; soft as peppermint; armed with patience, bearing with, clement, long-suffering.
Adv. like patience on a monument smiling at grief [Twelfth Night]; aequo animo [Lat.],
in cold blood &c 823; more in sorrow than in anger.
Int. patience!, and shuffle the cards.
Phr. cool calm and collected, keep calm in the midst of a storm; adversity's sweet milk,
philosophy [Romeo and Juliet]; mens aequa in arduis philosophia stemma non inspecite
[Lat.] [Seneca]; quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor hospes [Lat.] [Horace]; they also
serve who only stand and wait [Milton].
SECTION II
PERSONAL AFFECTIONS
1. PASSIVE AFFECTIONS
827. Pleasure -- N. pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition; oblectation, delectation,
delection † ; relish, zest; gusto &c (physical pleasure) 377; satisfaction &c (content) 831;
complacency.
well-being; good &c 618; snugness, comfort, ease; cushion &c 215; sans souci [Fr.],
without worry, mind at ease.
joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine; cheerfulness &c 836.
treat, refreshment; amusement &c 840; luxury &c 377.
mens sana in corpore sano [Lat.] [Juvenal], a sound mind in a sound body.
happiness, felicity, bliss; beatitude, beautification; enchantment, transport, rapture,
ravishment, ecstasy; summum bonum [Lat.]; paradise, elysium &c (heaven) 981; third
heaven † , seventh heaven, cloud nine; unalloyed happiness &c; hedonics † , hedonism.
honeymoon; palmy days, halcyon days; golden age, golden time; Dixie, Dixie's land;
Saturnia regna [Lat.], Arcadia † , Shangri-La, happy valley, Agapemone † .
V. be pleased &c 829; feel pleasure, experience pleasure &c n.; joy; enjoy oneself, hug
oneself; be in clover &c 377, be in elysium &c 981; tread on enchanted ground; fall into
raptures, go into raptures.
feel at home, breathe freely, bask in the sunshine.
be pleased with &c 829; receive pleasure, derive pleasure &c n.. from; take pleasure
&c n.. in; delight in, rejoice in, indulge in, luxuriate in; gloat over &c (physical pleasure)
377; enjoy, relish, like; love &c 897; take to, take a fancy to; have a liking for; enter into
the spirit of.
take in good part.
treat oneself to, solace oneself with.
Adj. pleased &c 829; not sorry; glad, gladsome; pleased as Punch.