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unspeaking
adjective as in inobtrusive
Weak matches
- buttoned-up
- clammed up
- close
- close-mouthed
- could hear a pin drop
- dumb
- hushed
- hushful
- inaudible
- low
- low-pitched
- muffled
- mute
- muted
- noiseless
- not saying boo
- peaceful
- quiescent
- quieted
- reserved
- restrained
- reticent
- secretive
- silent
- soft
- soundless
- speechless
- still
- stilled
- subdued
- taciturn
- tasteful
- tight-lipped
- uncommunicative
- unexpressed
- unobtrusive
- unuttered
- whist
adjective as in mum
adjective as in mute
Strongest matches
adjective as in quiet
adjective as in reticent
adjective as in silent
Strongest matches
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
- voiceless
- wordless
- zipped
Example Sentences
Within the quiet cabin a man stood to stare and stare, unspeaking, until his pilot laid a friendly hand upon the broad shoulders.
She bore much pain with calm unspeaking endurance, and she lived in trust of a better world.
False seeing is unseeing,—on the negative side of blindness; and false speaking, unspeaking,—on the negative side of silence.
But, as usual, he read nothing in the bland, unspeaking countenance before him.
Conan glared at him unspeaking, feeling a chill along his spine.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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