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silent
adjective
1 silent
Marked by absence of sound:
— A silent house.
synonyms: soundless, still.
Roget 265:
quiescent,
still;
motionless,
moveless;
fixed;
stationary;
immotile;
at rest at a stand,
at a standstill,
at anchor;
stock,
still;
standing still
etc.
v.;
sedentary,
untraveled,
stay-at-home;
becalmed,
stagnant,
quiet;
unmoved,
undisturbed,
unruffled;
calm,
restful;
cataleptic;
immovable
etc.
(stable)
150;
sleeping
etc.
(inactive)
683;
silent
etc.
403;
still as a statue,
still as a post,
still as a mouse,
still as death;
vegetative,
vegetating.
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Roget 403:
silent;
still,
stilly;
noiseless,
soundless;
hushed
etc.
v.;
mute
etc.
581.
soft,
solemn,
awful,
deathlike,
silent as the grave;
inaudible
etc.
(faint)
405.
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2 silent
Failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to:
— The witness remained silent.
synonym: mum.
3 silent
Implied by or inferred from actions or statements:
— Gave silent consent.
synonyms: tacit, understood.
Polish: cichy
4 silent
Not made to sound:
— The silent `h' at the beginning of `honor'.
synonym: unsounded.
5 silent
Having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility.
6 silent
Unable to speak because of hereditary deafness.
synonyms: dumb, mute.
Roget 585:
silent,
mute,
mum;
silent as a post,
silent as a stone,
silent as the grave
etc.
(still)
403;
dumb
etc.
581;
unconversable†.
taciturn,
sparing of words;
closetongued;
costive†,
inconversable†,
curt;
reserved;
reticent
etc.
(concealing)
528.
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Roget 581:
aphonous†,
dumb,
mute;
deafmute,
deaf and dumb;
mum;
tongue-tied;
breathless,
tongueless,
voiceless,
speechless,
wordless;
mute as a fish,
mute as a stockfish†,
mute as a mackerel;
silent
etc.
(taciturn)
585;
muzzled;
inarticulate,
inaudible.
croaking,
raucous,
hoarse,
husky,
dry,
hollow,
sepulchral,
hoarse as a raven;
rough.
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Polish: niemy, bezmowny
Moby thesaurus: aphonic, brief, brusque, calm, checked, close, close-lipped, close-tongued, closemouthed, concise, curbed, curt, dumb, echoless, economical of words, hush as death, hushed, implicit, implied, inactive, inarticulate, inaudible, incoherent, indisposed to talk, inhibited, laconic, mousy, mum, mute, muted, noiseless, pacific, passive, peaceful, placid, quiescent, quiet, reserved, restrained, reticent, secretive, serene, short, sleeping, snug, soundless, sparing of words, speechless, still, still as death, stilly, subaudible, tacit, taciturn, terse, tight-lipped, tongue-tied, tranquil, unagitated, unarticulated, uncommunicative, undeclared, understood, undisturbed, unexpressed, unhearable, unloquacious, unmentioned, unproclaimed, unpronounced, unpublished, unrecorded, unruffled, unsaid, unsociable, unsounded, unspoken, unstated, unsung, untalkative, untalked-of, untold, untroubled, unuttered, unvocalized, unvoiced, unwritten, voiceless, whist, word-bound, wordless ... show more.
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