noiselessly

Examples

• All

• And he was gone, to her surprise, as easily and noiselessly as light fading on stones.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Still in a crouch, she crept noiselessly across the room.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Hand in my pocket, I slip noiselessly down the hall as though I weigh nothing.

  Fiction book (1993)

• But he heard her; he had risen suddenly, noiselessly, to scan the dark.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Then he withdrew just as noiselessly as he had approached.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The two men whirled as a shadow dropped noiselessly from the deck immediately above them.

  Fiction book (1999)

• The little girl in her winter coat slips noiselessly towards the open barn door.

  Fiction book (1991)

• A little tractor rolled noiselessly across the crater floor to the launch pad.

  Fiction book (2001)

• A wizened man, whose sallow face sagged with the weight of his years, padded noiselessly into the room.

  Fiction book (1992)

• The little girl in her winter coat slips noiselessly towards the open barn door.

Synonyms

Q

quietly

vsnoiselessly

517 1.0

In a quiet way that makes little or no noise

indicates total absence of sound rather than merely low noise level

S

silently

vsnoiselessly

129 1.2

In a quiet way without making any sound or speaking

is identical in meaning but appears as a different adverb form

I

in silence

vsnoiselessly

87 2.1

Not speaking or making any sound

describes manner of acting that produces no sound rather than a state

W

wordlessly

vsnoiselessly

6 3.9

To do something without speaking or using words

is broader, involving absence of all sound not only lack of words

S

soundlessly

vsnoiselessly

5 4.4

In a way that makes no sound

is the same in sense but uses a different single word form

M

mutely

vsnoiselessly

3 5.6

Without speaking or making any sound

focuses on complete lack of sound rather than only not speaking

I

inaudibly

vsnoiselessly

2 6.3

So quietly that no one can hear

means producing no sound at all rather than being merely unheard

Antonyms

N

noisily

13 1.0

In a loud, often unpleasant way

A

audibly

6 3.7

In a way that can be heard

How Silent

noiselessly

3 4.4

quietly

517 1.0

softly

178 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology