Word Meanings - SILENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable." 5. Having no effect; not operating; inefficient. Cause . . . silent, virtueless, and dead. Sir W. Raleigh. Silent partner. See Dormant partner, under Dormant. Syn. -- Mute;

Additional info about word: SILENT

Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable." 5. Having no effect; not operating; inefficient. Cause . . . silent, virtueless, and dead. Sir W. Raleigh. Silent partner. See Dormant partner, under Dormant. Syn. -- Mute; taciturn; dumb; speechless; quiet; still. See Mute, and Taciturn. (more info) 1. Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet. How silent is this town! Shak. 2. Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative. Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most silent of men. Broome. This new-created world, whereof in hell Fame is not silent. Milton. 3. Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed; as, the wind is silent. Parnell. Sir W. Raleigh.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SILENT)

• Dumb
• Inarticulate
• mute
• silent
• still
• Mute
• Silent
• speechless
• dumb
• taciturn
• voiceless
• death-like
• Reticent
• Tacit
• implied
• understood
• implicit
• unexpressed
• Taciturn
• reserved
• inconversible
• uncommunicative
• close
• pauciloquous
• reticent

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SILENT)

• Open
• initiate
• conduct
• protract

Related words: (words related to SILENT)

• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• IMPLIEDLY
  By implication or inference. Bp. Montagu.
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• UNDERSTOOD
  imp. & p. p. of Understand.
• 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.
• CLOSEHANDED
  Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
• IMPLICITNESS
  State or quality of being implicit.
• STILLSTAND
  A standstill. Shak.
• INARTICULATELY
  In an inarticulate manner. Hammond.
• PROTRACTIVE
  Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden.
• IMPLICITY
  Implicitness. Cotgrave.
• STILLING
  A stillion.
• INARTICULATE
  1. Not uttered with articulation or intelligible distinctness, as speech or words. Music which is inarticulate poesy. Dryden. Not jointed or articulated; having no distinct body segments; as, an inarticulate worm. Without a hinge; -- said of an
• STILLAGE
  A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight.
• CLOSEFISTED
  Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.
• INARTICULATED
  Not articulated; not jointed or connected by a joint.
• STILLION
  A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.
• CONDUCTIVITY
  The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity , the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces
• 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.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• SIMPLIFICATION
  The act of simplifying. A. Smith.
• 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
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• PISTILLIFEROUS
  Pistillate.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• DISTILLABLE
  Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
• 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.
• UNIMPLICATE
  Not implicated. "Unimplicate in folly." R. Browning.
• INSTILLATOR
  An instiller.