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silent
adjective as in quiet; speechless
Strongest matches
hushed, mum, mute, restrained, reticent
Weak matches
bashful, buttoned-up, checked, clammed up, close, closed-up, closemouthed, curbed, dumb, dummied up, faint, hush, iced, inarticulate, incoherent, inconversable, indistinct, inhibited, laconic, mousy, muted, noiseless, nonvocal, not talkative, reserved, shy, silentious, soundless, still, struck dumb, taciturn, tongue-tied, unclear, uncommunicative, unheard, unsociable, unspeaking, voiceless, wordless, zipped
adjective as in understood, implied
Weak matches
aphonic, implicit, indescribable, inexpressible, nameless, tacit, unexpressed, unpronounced, unspoken, unuttered, unvoiced, wordless
Example Sentences
Sen. Chuck Grassley reportedly fell completely silent when confronted with questions about the nom.
Pancreatic cancer, known as the “silent killer,” is the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths and accounted for 8% of cancer deaths this year, according to statistics from the National Institutes of Health.
Phones cannot be on silent or vibration settings, he said.
"I applaud Justin Welby for resigning but what I think the survivor group would like is more resignations because that means more accountability, people taking responsibility for having been silent when they should have spoken," he said.
During those 24 hours they observe 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets over their silent blue planet, spinning past continents and cycling past seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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