silent

Meanings

Plural: silents

Adjective Satellite

• marked by absence of sound
  • "a silent house"
• failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to
  • "the witness remained silent"
• implied by or inferred from actions or statements
  • "gave silent consent"
• not made to sound
  • "the silent `h' at the beginning of `honor'"
• having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility
  • "a silent dog whistle"
• unable to speak because of hereditary deafness

Adj

• Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
• Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
• Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed.
• Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent.
• Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.
• With the sound turned off; usually on silent or in silent mode.
• Without audio capability.
• Hidden, unseen.
• Of an edit or change to a text, not explicitly acknowledged.
• Not implying significant modifications which would affect a peptide sequence.
• Undiagnosed or undetected because of an absence of symptoms.
• Of distilled spirit: having no flavour or odour.

Noun

• That which is silent; a time of silence.
• A silent movie

Synonyms

concealed, dormant, dumb, hidden, inactive, invisible, mum, mute, noiseless, occluded, quiescent, quiet, servile, silent, silential, soundless, speechless, still, tacit, taciturn, understood, unsounded

Antonyms

loud, noisy, nonsilent, unsilent

Related Words

anechoic, asonant, clickless, echoless, inaudible, make silent, mum, mumchance, musicless, nonvocal, obmutescent, shtoom, silence, silentiary, silentious, songless, speechless, taciturn, tongueless, tuneless, voiceless, whist, wordless

Anagrams of silent