noiselessly
2
4.4
- adverb
- /ˈnɔɪzləsli/
- Would you please close the front door noiselessly when you leave?
- slid noiselessly
- opened noiselessly
- glide noiselessly
Examples
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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
466
1.0
In a quiet way that makes little or no noise
117
2.1
Not speaking or making any sound
114
1.2
In a quiet way without making any sound or speaking
5
3.9
To do something without speaking or using words
4
4.4
In a way that makes no sound
2
5.6
Without speaking or making any sound
2
6.3
So quietly that no one can hear
Antonyms
How Silent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Noiselessly comes from three parts: noise, less, and -ly, where less means 'without', as in hopeless, and -ly makes it describe how something is done. So noiselessly means doing something 'without' sound, or silently.