Silent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Marked by absence of noise or sound; still.
  • adj. Not inclined to speak; not talkative.
  • adj. Unable to speak.
  • adj. Refraining from speech: Do be silent.
  • adj. Not voiced or expressed; unspoken: a silent curse; silent consent.
  • adj. Inactive; quiescent: a silent volcano.
  • adj. Linguistics Having no phonetic value; unpronounced: the silent b in subtle.
  • adj. Having no spoken dialogue and usually no soundtrack. Used of a film.
  • adj. Producing no detectable signs or symptoms: a silent heart attack.
  • n. A silent movie.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
  • adj. Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
  • adj. Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed; as, the wind is silent. Parnell. Sir W. Raleigh.
  • adj. Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, "e is silent in fable."
  • adj. Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.
  • adj. Without audio capability.
  • adj. Hidden, unseen, as a silent voter or silent partner.
  • n. That which is silent; a time of silence.
  • n. A silent movie
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
  • adj. Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
  • adj. Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed.
  • adj. Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent
  • adj. Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.
  • n. That which is silent; a time of silence.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not speaking, or making a noise with the voice; withholding or restraining vocal sounds; mute; dumb; speechless: as, a silent spectator; silent watchers.
  • In a restricted use, not given to speaking; using; few words; not loquacious.
  • Not speaking about some specified thing; withholding mention or statement; saying nothing; uncommunicative.
  • Lacking authority or ability to speak, as about something of personal concern; not having a voice; disqualified for speech: as, a silent partner in a firm (see partner); the silent part of creation.
  • Not uttered or expressed with the voice; unmarked by utterance or demonstrative speech; unspoken; unsounded: as, silent agony or endurance; silent opposition; a silent letter (see below).
  • Free from or unattended by noise or sound; marked by stillness; quiet: as, silent woods; a silent assembly.
  • Synonyms and Silent, Taciturn, Dumb, Mute. Silent expresses the fact of not speaking, taciturn the habitual disposition to refrain from speaking. Dumb strictly implies lack of the organs of speech, or defect in them, or lack of the power of speaking, while mute implies some special cause: hence deaf-mute is thought by many a better name than deaf-and-dumb person for one who does not speak on account of deafness; an idol is dumb, not mute. Under figurative extension mute, dumb, and silent are often used outside of the lines here indicated. In such freer use there is an advance in strength from silent, to mute and from mute to dumb: as, silent from abstraction; mute with astonishment; struck dumb with horror.
  • n. A silent period.
  • n. A short-circuit switch attached to an electric alarm, which when closed prevents the alarm from acting.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. not made to sound
  • adj. unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
  • adj. failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to
  • adj. implied by or inferred from actions or statements
  • adj. having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility
  • adj. marked by absence of sound
    • Equivalent
    inaudible    unhearable    inarticulate    unarticulate    incommunicative    uncommunicative    implicit    inexplicit    quiet   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dumb    taciturn    speechless    still    quiet    mute    inactive    calm    undisturbed    quiescent   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    violent   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    quiet    gentle    slow    distant    cold    saved    ready    different    find    lost   
     
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