noiseless
2
3.5
- adjective
- /ˈnɔɪzləs/
:
silencioso
- She moved through the house in a noiseless manner, not wanting to wake anyone.
- virtually noiseless
- almost noiseless
- noiseless steps
First I typed fate in the noiseless Siesta streets.
- First I typed fate in the noiseless Siesta streets.
- Berrigan's long, sneaky sentences wriggle and school out across the page like that noiseless patient spider launching forth filament.
Examples
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The black-eyed child stares at the animals' noiseless pacing as if into the heart of a whirlpool that might suck him down.
Fiction book (1990) -
Black velvety silence descended, turning her into a noiseless wraith, an avenging angel, silent and invisible.
Fiction book (1994) -
And it's noiseless compared to my last one.
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Nothing like the noiseless efficiency of the one that had brought him to the theater.
Fiction book (2001) -
The woman is like a shadow, noiseless, coming and going unexpectedly.
Fiction book (1996) -
Dropping down into the water until only his head was above its dark surface, LeRoi began his noiseless approach.
Fiction book (2001) -
The lessons are conducted in a noiseless environment, and no de-motivating noise is felt within the classroom.
Academic text (2010) -
Her eyes burned suddenly, though she had nothing left for tears; her body shook in a sudden, noiseless sob of fear and despair.
Fiction book (1993) -
Still, there is something terrifying in the vacancy Abraham witnesses, this still world whose only movement is the noiseless smoke rising from scorched earth.
Academic text (2008) -
Steam burst from grates in wavy, noiseless torrents.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
257
1.0
Not making any sound
4
4.0
Not making any sound
1
6.7
Strangely quiet in a way that makes you feel scared
1
5.7
Completely quiet with no sound at all
Antonyms
How Silent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Noiseless is made from noise and the ending -less, where -less means 'without', just like in hopeless. So noiseless means 'making no sound' or being 'without noise'.