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silent

• (s) marked by absence of sound
  • a silent house
  • soundless footsteps on the grass
  • the night was still
  soundless, still,
• (s) failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to
  • the witness remained silent
  mum,
• (s) implied by or inferred from actions or statements
  • gave silent consent
  • a tacit agreement
  • the understood provisos of a custody agreement
  tacit, understood,
• (s) not made to sound
  • the silent "h" at the beginning of "honor"
  • in French certain letters are often unsounded
  unsounded,
• (s) having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility
  • a silent dog whistle
• (s) unable to speak because of hereditary deafness mute, dumb,

Synonyms

soundless still mum tacit understood unsounded mute dumb

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