Thesaurus / silence
other words for silence
- blackout
- calm
- lull
- peace
- quiet
- reticence
- secrecy
- stillness
- censorship
- death
- dumbness
- hush
- laconism
- muteness
- noiselessness
- quiescence
- quietness
- quietude
- quietus
- reserve
- sleep
- speechlessness
- still
- sulk
- sullenness
- taciturnity
- uncommunicativeness
- dead air
- hush-hush
- inarticulateness
- iron curtain
- saturninity
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The silence observed at the GOP convention is familiar to those of us who contended for years with Republican parents and relatives.
LGBTQ: THE LETTERS REPUBLICANS DIDN’T UTTERHANS JOHNSONSEPTEMBER 11, 2020WASHINGTON BLADE
In 2014, NSO had been bought for around $100 million by the American private equity firm Francisco Partners, which had a strict no-press policy that Hulio says led to a harmful culture of silence.
THE MAN WHO BUILT A SPYWARE EMPIRE SAYS IT’S TIME TO COME OUT OF THE SHADOWSBOBBIE JOHNSONAUGUST 19, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
Last week, I wrote about young activists in North County motivated to protest not only George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis but their own communities’ history of silence on racial justice issues and police brutality.
NORTH COUNTY REPORT: AN ACTIVIST ON HIS AGENDA FOR NORTH COUNTY AND BEYONDKAYLA JIMENEZJUNE 24, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
Just by having that realm of silence and the room to think, that’s when the ideas appear.
BEFORE WORKING ON SPACECRAFT, THIS ENGINEER OVERCAME SELF-DOUBTCAROLYN WILKEAPRIL 7, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS
Felix explained to PEOPLE that she was first inspired to share her story after two of her former Nike teammates, Olympic runners Alysia Montaño and Kara Goucher, broke their silence on the brand’s treatment of their pregnant female athletes.
We set out in silence, and having descended a steep path, we stopped at the water's edge and crossed swords.
MARIEALEXANDER PUSHKIN
There was silence then for a few moments before he spoke again.
BY BIRTH A LADYGEORGE MANVILLE FENN
No one inquires who the man is who is at his side, and each pursues in silence his own researches.
THREE YEARS IN EUROPEWILLIAM WELLS BROWN
How absurd would it be then to argue against the existence of customs or facts, from the silence of such scanty records as these!
Jarwin walked aft and stood near the lee gangway contemplating the island in silence for some time.
JARWIN AND CUFFYR.M. BALLANTYNE
WORDS RELATED TO SILENCE
- afterlife
- annihilation
- bereavement
- casualty
- cessation
- curtains
- darkness
- decease
- demise
- departure
- destruction
- dissolution
- downfall
- dying
- end
- ending
- eradication
- eternal rest
- euthanasia
- exit
- expiration
- extermination
- extinction
- fatality
- finis
- finish
- grave
- grim reaper
- heaven
- loss
- mortality
- necrosis
- obliteration
- oblivion
- paradise
- parting
- passing
- passing over
- quietus
- release
- repose
- ruin
- ruination
- silence
- sleep
- termination
- tomb
- afterlife
- annihilation
- bereavement
- casualty
- cessation
- curtains
- darkness
- decease
- demise
- departure
- destruction
- dissolution
- downfall
- dying
- end
- ending
- eradication
- eternal rest
- euthanasia
- exit
- expiration
- extermination
- extinction
- fatality
- finis
- finish
- grave
- grim reaper
- heaven
- loss
- mortality
- necrosis
- obliteration
- oblivion
- paradise
- parting
- passing
- passing over
- quietus
- release
- repose
- ruin
- ruination
- silence
- sleep
- termination
- tomb
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.