Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a silent manner; without speech or noise; not soundingly or noisily; mutely; quietly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a silent manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
silent manner; making nonoise .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb without speaking
Etymologies
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Examples
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I said the word silently to myself until the syllables collapsed into nonsense.
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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I said the word silently to myself until the syllables collapsed into nonsense.
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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I said the word silently to myself until the syllables collapsed into nonsense.
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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I said the word silently to myself until the syllables collapsed into nonsense.
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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I said the word silently to myself until the syllables collapsed into nonsense.
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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I said the word silently to myself until the syllables collapsed into nonsense.
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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I said the word silently to myself until the syllables collapsed into nonsense.
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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I said the word silently to myself until the syllables collapsed into nonsense.
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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In an attempt to prod my memory, I now began to repeat his name silently as I bent my steps homeward—Alexander Montague, Alexander Montague.
Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999
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He would close his eyes, repeat her name silently, moving his lips, one hundred times.
Her Fearful Symmetry AUDREY NIFFENEGGER 2009
bilby commented on the word silently
"Silently. Slience is always proper. When I understand this better I'll stop talking. You won't be able to hear me for miles. I will radiate silence like a dark star shining in the gaps between syllables and conversation." - 'Lanark', Alasdair Gray.
December 13, 2007