silent.
Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
Meaning & usage
Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed.
Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent.
The e is silent in fable.
Silent letters can make some words difficult to spell.
Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.
With the sound turned off; usually on silent or in silent mode.
My phone was on silent.
Without audio capability.
The Magnavox Odyssey was a silent console.
Hidden, unseen.
a silent voter; a silent partner
Of an edit or change to a text, not explicitly acknowledged.
silent revisions; a silent emendation
Not implying significant modifications which would affect a peptide sequence.
Undiagnosed or undetected because of an absence of symptoms.
Of distilled spirit: having no flavour or odour.
Where this word comes from
From Latin silēns (“silent”), present participle of sileō (“be silent”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyl- (“still, windless, quiet, slow”). Related to Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌽 (anasilan, “to cease, grow still, be silent”), Old English sālnes (“silence”).
That which is silent; a time of silence.
A silent movie
Where this word comes from
From Latin silēns (“silent”), present participle of sileō (“be silent”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyl- (“still, windless, quiet, slow”). Related to Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌽 (anasilan, “to cease, grow still, be silent”), Old English sālnes (“silence”).
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.