silent

Definition for silent

adjective as in quiet; speechless

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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

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aphonic, implicit, indescribable, inexpressible, nameless, tacit, unexpressed, unpronounced, unspoken, unuttered, unvoiced, wordless

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“He switched from being silent and quiet to active and alive and thriving.”

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"The British Crown committed heinous crimes against the first peoples of this country... I will not be silent," the independent senator said.

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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.

From Los Angeles Times

Phones cannot be on silent or vibration settings, he said.

From Los Angeles Times

But again, for me, it’s part of our own silent agreement that says we’re less valuable.

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