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Adjective silent has 6 senses
- silent, soundless, still - marked by absence of sound; "a silent house"; "soundless footsteps on the grass"; "the night was still"
Antonym: noisy (indirect, via quiet)
- mum, silent - failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to; "the witness remained silent"
Antonyms: communicative, communicatory (indirect, via uncommunicative)
- implied, silent, tacit, understood - indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly; "gave silent consent"; "a tacit agreement"; "the understood provisos of a custody agreement"
Antonyms: explicit, expressed (indirect, via implicit)
- silent, unsounded - not made to sound; "the silent `h' at the beginning of `honor'"; "in French certain letters are often unsounded"
Antonyms: audible, hearable (indirect, via inaudible)
- silent - having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility; "a silent dog whistle"
Antonyms: audible, hearable (indirect, via inaudible)
- dumb, mute, silent - unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
Antonym: articulate (indirect, via inarticulate)
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