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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
She travels to Savannah’s Bonaventure graveyard, abutting the Wilmington River, “where shrimp boats float, a mostly silent river that is only audible when a breeze shakes the trees and you hear the water whisper.”
The UN experts said the international community could not "remain silent in the face of such systemic violations" and that states "must take concrete diplomatic action to pressure Iran to halt this execution spree".
"She's such a firecracker in the series and then I actually found out she was also a very solitary and silent woman who painted lots of watercolours," Galligan explains.
One of the oldest movie studios in Los Angeles, where Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks once made silent films, is up for sale, perhaps to the newest generation of content creators.
He argued that the Lib Dems had a "moral responsibility" to challenge Reform and urged his party to embrace patriotism to speak for "Britain's decent silent majority".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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