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[ adjective ] marked by absence of sound
Examples "a silent house" "soundless footsteps on the grass" "the night was still" Used in print (Christopher Davis, First Family....)It was a strained , silent lunch . (W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)At the very end , when the audience was silent and breathless , a collection was taken and then slowly everyone filed_out . (Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)Underneath the big one , in the silent moonlight , lay a dead pigeon , and on the smaller bell , the Clemence , two gray and white birds slept huddled_together in the cold winter air . (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)The night before , they had telephoned the Andrus_maid , Selena_Masters , and she had arrived early , bursting her vigorous presence into the silent house with an assurance that amused McFeeley and confounded Moll . (William Maxwell, The Chateau....)Eugene was not entirely silent , or openly rude - unless asking Harold to move to another chair and placing himself in the fauteuil that creaked so alarmingly was an act of rudeness . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to
Synonyms Examples "the witness remained silent" Used in print (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)Now the_English are painfully silent about my missing hands . (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)He was a wiry , inscrutable , silent country boy from the red_clay of rural Alabama , and he spoke with the broad drawl that others normally make_fun of . (Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)Well , yes , perhaps in literature , since you could argue that you could n't keep silent about your feelings against literature and so were involved in spite of yourself . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility
Examples "a silent dog whistle" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly
Synonyms Examples "gave silent consent" "a tacit agreement" "the understood provisos of a custody agreement" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (of film) having no spoken dialogue and usually no soundtrack
Examples "a silent movie" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
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