silent

Meanings

Adjective

• 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.
• Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.
• With the sound turned off; usually on silent or in silent mode.
• Without audio capability.
• Hidden, unseen.
• Of an edit or change to a text, not explicitly acknowledged.
• 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.

Noun

• That which is silent; a time of silence.
• A silent movie

Related

Similar words

• mute, quiescent, servile

Origin

• From Latin silēns ("silent"), present participle of sileō, from Proto-Indo-European *seyl- ("still, windless, quiet, slow"). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌽 ("to cease, grow still, be silent"), Old English sālnes ("silence").