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silent Adjective

— If something is silent, there is no sound. It is unheard. The candidates were silent during the exam.

silent

— adjective (= soundless, still) marked by absence of sound a silent house soundless footsteps on the grass the night was still — adjective failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to the witness remained silent — adjective having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility a silent dog whistle — adjective (= unsounded) not made to sound the silent 'h' at the beginning of 'honor' in French certain letters are often unsounded — adjective (= tacit, understood) implied by or inferred from actions or statements gave silent consent a tacit agreement the understood provisos of a custody agreement — adjective (= dumb) unable to speak because of hereditary deafness

Synonyms silent synonyms

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silent English » English

quiet mute taciturn noiseless calm still dumb speechless soundless shut up peaceful reticent voiceless tacit mum tranquil not talkative uncommunicative not speaking be quiet wordless secretive keep silence keep quiet inaudible hushed hush deaf unvoiced unsounded understood sullen stupid solitary solemn silence shy serene reserved quite peaceable not make a sound lonely in silence closemouthed be silent walk-on vacant untalkative unspoken

Topics silent topics

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Person Sense, perceive Hear

Quiet

What words describe something or someone that is quiet?

quiet silent
What words refer to becoming quieter?

get quieter go quiet die down die away fade away fall silent lower your voice
What words refer to there not being any sound?

silent silence you could hear a pin drop

Language and thought Communication Say Voice

Say nothing

What words refer to not talking?

keep silent keep quiet say nothing zip your lip shut up refrain from talking
What words describe someone who is silent?

silent quiet close-mouthed mum mute speechless wordless

Social behavior Behavior Good, moral Patient

Bad-tempered

What words describe someone who refuses to talk because they are angry?

sullen surly sulky sulk be in a sulk give someone the silent treatment

Examples silent examples

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Simple sentences

Stand still and keep silent.

He stood silent for a moment before speaking.

He remained silent the whole time.

When Tom spoke, they all remained silent.

Tom remained silent for a long time.

Parents teach children to speak, children teach parents to be silent.

I kept silent.

I love silent movies.

I like silent movies.

Students must keep silent during a class.

Why were you silent all the time?

Not knowing what to say, she remained silent.

Not knowing what to say, I remained silent.

Silent waters run deep.

I can no longer remain silent.

Not knowing what to answer, I kept silent.

Not knowing what to say, I kept silent.

Not knowing what answer to make, I kept silent.

All was silent in the house.

Not knowing what to say, he remained silent.

All were silent.

Tom was sitting silent for half an hour.

The little girl managed to keep silent, having been terrified by the lightning.

Movie subtitles

Put your talking machine on silent!

I'm just a silent partner.

But before, the inspector Juve will be found dead in his bed, killed by my silent executioner.

The silent executioner.

The splash of a dark fall sounds in the silent night.

A memorial statue of noble Nydia is a silent witness of Ione and Glaucus's happy life.

Love sings on silent waves.

From the silent film produced in Munich, Nathan the Wise, only one copy has been found.

Listen, Kriemhild, at how I won the armlet - and keep silent!

I once broke the oath to be silent and never will do so again!

Far into the icy north, deep into the silent nowhere, came an undaunted lone prospector.

High atop his silent world.

The silent sea swashed around.

Oh, that's your silent partner.

Be silent!

Him who is silent we trust more than you who speak.

She's our silent partner's favorite.

You're very silent.

I feel very silent.

This is no time to keep silent.

This device renders the engine completely silent.

Jane Murdstone, will you be silent!

But, darling, you know I'm as silent as a tomb.

No lynching can be justified, though sometimes attempts are made to whitewash them by citing the confessions of or proofs of guilt against, the by now silent corpse.

Why so silent?

Keep silent!

Keep silent, you rascal!

Silent night!

John Mayer, you have the right to remain silent. If you do say anything, what you say can be used against you in a court of law.

MY FRIEND JEFF'S GONE RADIO SILENT, TOO.

Why are you so silent and never laugh?

Why are you so silent?

Good. I'll be silent.

We're silent as the grave.

AT FIRST HE WAS VERY SILENT AS HE HAS OFTEN BEEN OF LATE.

I'll be your bloodhound, sniffing and silent.

I am a courier, fast as lightning. silent as the night itself.

News and current affairs

Turkey's military initially remained silent on the issue, uncharacteristically watching the civilian political process unfold.

Empathy, not ethnocentrism, should be the order of the day now that the guns are falling silent and we have rediscovered the limits of military force.

But if we have learned anything at all from the tragic assassinations of the region's greatest peacemakers, Anwar Sadat and Yitzhak Rabin, it is that the guns do not remain silent for long.

Obama has remained silent about reform of Medicare and Social Security, whose long-run deficits are several times the national debt.

The roadmap is--so far--silent on this issue.

If those who gather in Moscow on May 9 do anything to validate Soviet war crimes, they will show themselves insensitive to the silent cries of WWII's tens of millions of dead innocents.

The silent majority is ready to be convinced that there is life after Bush.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is said to have been disappointed by Barroso's performance during last autumn's financial meltdown, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel also seems to have fallen silent on the matter of his future.

Indeed, Russia and the world may well see in the summit the G-8's silent approval of Putin's domestic and foreign policies.

Perhaps Hu Jia and Chen Guancheng represent this silent billion more than the Party does.

Delegates are confused about their roles and powers, and the conditions are perfect for creating a silent majority.

Then, in the 1970s, largely as a result of an environmental scare promoted by Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, foreign aid agencies and UN organizations stopped promoting DDT, and its usage declined.

And it may raise concerns about media concentration in Russia, but remains silent about media concentration in Italy.

Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring had raised fears about pollution and launched the modern environmental movement; Paul Ehrlich's 1968 title The Population Bomb said it all.

Often, her only choice is to remain silent or risk disgracing the family.

Such an unfair distribution of wealth based on economic exploitation, social injustice and political exclusion has caused silent but persistent resistance by Chinese peasants.

Then, each morning, before the tourists reappear, they unceremoniously open the gates again, so that the eerily silent falls suddenly revive in a simulacrum of normalcy.

And yet the world remains silent in the face of the looting of Grozny and other Chechen towns and villages.

As was true of all imperial conferences, Hirohito was expected to remain silent and approve a policy that already had been decided.

Until the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel's image benefited from living memories of the Shoah and the silent guilt of an entire generation of Europeans.

It should be possible to mobilize a pro-European silent majority behind the idea that when the status quo becomes untenable, we should look for a European solution rather than national ones.

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