SILENT • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Silent

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/sˈaɪlənt/ Listen

adjective

Silent adj.

Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet. "How silent is this town!"

Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative. "Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most silent of men." "This new-created world, whereof in hell Fame is not silent."

Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed; as, the wind is silent.

(Pron.) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable."

Having no effect; not operating; inefficient. (R.) "Cause... silent, virtueless, and dead."

Silent partner. See Dormant partner, under Dormant.

Synonyms: Mute; taciturn; dumb; speechless; quiet; still. See Mute, and Taciturn.

noun

Silent n. That which is silent; a time of silence. (R.) "The silent of the night."

See images of 'Silent'

Etymology of 'Silent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Silent" Quotes from Famous Books

... forth upon what we can never know, upon what we can never affirm to know, or care for, us, our thoughts or actions, or to possess the attributes of wisdom and goodness! The worship offered in such a religion must be, as Professor Huxley says,[252] "for the most part of the silent sort"—silent not only as to the spoken word, but silent as to the mental conception also. It will be difficult to distinguish the follower of this religion from the follower of none, and the man who ...

— On the Genesis of Species • St. George Mivart

... gallant towers at Holy Cross Are silent night and day, A few young lads are left behind Who still may take their play; The Cross and Flag look out afar For ...

— Ballads of Peace in War • Michael Earls

... have another toast to propose to you, which I hope will be drank with the same enthusiasm as the last; so "Here's a curse for France and the French." All immediately drank it but myself and an elderly gentleman, who declared he would not invoke a curse upon any land or any people. A silent pause intervened; every one appeared to look at the other, as to how they ought to act on their toast being refused, none caring to assume the initiative. At last, one rising from his chair, who perhaps began to view the affair ...

— How to Enjoy Paris in 1842 • F. Herve

... atmosphere is needed, and the insight and skill of the right man. In the erotic sphere a woman asks nothing better of a man than to be lifted above her coldness, to the higher plane where there is reciprocal interest and mutual joy in the act of love. Therein her silent demand is one with Nature's. For the biological order of the world involves those claims which, in the human range, are ...

— Little Essays of Love and Virtue • Havelock Ellis

... this first singing of the hymn, that this place, this appeal, would be of no use in his own particular need. This deliberate evoking of dramatic effect had nothing to do with that silent consciousness of God. This place, this appeal, was fantastic, childish, beside that event that had that afternoon sent Carfax into space. Let these men hurry to the wood, let them find the sodden body, let them face then the reality of Life. ...

— The Prelude to Adventure • Hugh Walpole

More quotes...