silent
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3.7
- adjective
- /ˈsaɪlənt/
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tácito
- However, the initiative met with what I would call "silent opposition" in the L-group.
- silent but eloquent
My, my experience with AI is just one of silent obsession.
- My, my experience with AI is just one of silent obsession.
- I I read and I'm in a kind of silent conversation with what I'm reading all the time.
- But to be free of fear, if you can sense that deep within you there is a silent power.
- Now, here's the nice metaphor that the communication of pure insight is comparable to a silent expansion.
- So losing itself again in the nether darkness and lingering above only with a silent maternal yearning.
- And that's a lot of the work that they're doing to quote UN quote, interpret ambiguous or silent statutes.
- But typically, you know, typically digital visual culture and and text culture is silent.
- Your storied pomp cries she with silent lips.
Examples
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For every laugh there is a silent cry.
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But this Budget is almost silent on those questions.
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But to be free of fear, if you can sense that deep within you there is a silent power.
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They're always already there, silent but ready to speak.
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Or they go silent when they don't know how to manage a situation.
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Suddenly, three students rushed in asking me to help them find a silent-reading book for class.
Academic text (2013) -
And I've just been pretty silent, and less so as I've gotten older.
Academic text (1995) -
Yet through the rumbling, he also hears another, silent voice: that of his own anguish.
Academic text (1998) -
He gave a silent nod of agreement, showing his support without using words.
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During the meeting, her silent glance conveyed her disapproval more than any words could.
Synonyms
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4.8
Not said aloud but people understand it
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5.8
Not spoken out loud
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4.1
Not using speech, often shown by a look or gesture
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7.8
People understand or accept something without anyone saying it
9
4.1
A look or action that shows feeling without words
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9.9
Shown or felt without spoken words
Accepted without being said or written
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
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6.0
A person who gives money to a business but does not help run it or show they are involved
- Literature
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5.6
A large group of people who do not speak in public yet hold views not heard from loud groups
How Explicit
Surface Forms
Etymology
Silent comes from the Latin silere, 'to be quiet', and shares that root with silence. So a silent approval is approval given without words — it is understood because no one objects.