Word Meanings - NOISELESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Making, or causing, no noise or bustle; without noise; silent; as, the noiseless foot of time. So noiseless would I live. Dryden. -- Noise"less*ly, adv. -- Noise"less*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NOISELESS)

• Silent
• Still
• taciturn
• speechless
• dormant
• quiet
• noiseless

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of NOISELESS)

• Rouse
• excite
• disturb
• agitate
• stir
• urge
• goad

Related words: (words related to NOISELESS)

• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• SPEECHLESS
  1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• STILLSTAND
  A standstill. Shak.
• STILLING
  A stillion.
• STILLAGE
  A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight.
• STILLION
  A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.
• EXCITEFUL
  Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
• STILLROOM
  1. A room for distilling. 2. An apartment in a house where liquors, preserves, and the like, are kept. Floors are rubbed bright, . . . stillroom and kitchen cleared for action. Dickens.
• QUIETER
  One who, or that which, quiets.
• STILL-HUNT
  A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously. -- Still"-hunt`er, n. -- Still"-hunt`ing, n.
• DORMANT
  In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant. Dormant partner , a partner who takes no share in the active business of a company or partnership, but is entitled to a share of the profits, and subject to a
• DISTURBANCE
  The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone. Syn. -- Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil;
• QUIET
  p. pf quiescere to rest, keep quiet; akin to quies rest, and prob. to E. while, n. See While, and cf. Coy, a., Quiesce, Quietus, Quit, a., 1. In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air. They
• STILLATORY
  1. An alembic; a vessel for distillation. Bacon. 2. A laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed. Dr. H. More. Sir H. Wotton.
• STILL-CLOSING
  Ever closing. "Still-clothing waters." Shak.
• STILLATITIOUS
  Falling in drops; drawn by a still.
• SILENTIARY
  One appointed to keep silence and order in court; also, one sworn not to divulge secre
• INSTILL
  To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
• PISTILLIFEROUS
  Pistillate.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• UNQUIET
  To disquiet. Ld. Herbert.
• DISTILLABLE
  Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• DISTILLATION
  The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible
• FINESTILLER
  One who finestills.
• INSTILLATOR
  An instiller.
• DISQUIETMENT
  State of being disquieted; uneasiness; harassment. Hopkins.