Marked by absence of sound:
— A silent house.

synoniemen: soundless, still.

Roget 265: quiescent, still; motionless, moveless; fixed; stationary; immotile; at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor; stock, still; standing still etc. v.; sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home; becalmed, stagnant, quiet; unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled; calm, restful; cataleptic; immovable etc. (stable) 150; sleeping etc. (inactive) 683; silent etc. 403; still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death; vegetative, vegetating.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 403: silent; still, stilly; noiseless, soundless; hushed etc. v.; mute etc. 581.    soft, solemn, awful, deathlike, silent as the grave; inaudible etc. (faint) 405.    ... meer laten zien

Failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to:
— The witness remained silent.

synoniem: mum.

Implied by or inferred from actions or statements:
— Gave silent consent.

synoniemen: tacit, understood.

Pools: cichy

Not made to sound:
— The silent `h' at the beginning of `honor'.

synoniem: unsounded.

Having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility.

Unable to speak because of hereditary deafness.

synoniemen: dumb, mute.

Roget 585: silent, mute, mum; silent as a post, silent as a stone, silent as the grave etc. (still) 403; dumb etc. 581; unconversable^†.    taciturn, sparing of words; closetongued; costive^†, inconversable^†, curt; reserved; reticent etc. (concealing) 528.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 581: aphonous^†, dumb, mute; deafmute, deaf and dumb; mum; tongue-tied; breathless, tongueless, voiceless, speechless, wordless; mute as a fish, mute as a stockfish^†, mute as a mackerel; silent etc. (taciturn) 585; muzzled; inarticulate, inaudible.    croaking, raucous, hoarse, husky, dry, hollow, sepulchral, hoarse as a raven; rough.    ... meer laten zien

Pools: niemy, bezmowny