Thesaurus: silent

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1. a. Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
2. a. Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
3. a. Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed; as, the wind is silent.
4. a. Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable."
5. a. Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.
6. n. That which is silent; a time of silence.
7. adj. marked by absence of sound
8. adj. failing to speak or communicate etc. when expected to
9. adj. implied by or inferred from actions or statements
10. adj. not made to sound
11. adj. having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility
12. adj. unable to speak because of hereditary deafness