* IPA(key): /ˈsaɪlənt/

SILENT (_comparative_ SILENTER _or_ MORE SILENT, _superlative_ SILENTEST _or_ MOST SILENT) * Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet. * 1604, William Shakespeare, _Othello_, act 5, scene 1: How SILENT is this town! * 1825, Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, _The Works of Samuel Johnson_, Talboys and Wheeler, page 52: What was formerly performed by fleets and armies, by invasions, sieges, and battles, has been of late accomplished by MORE SILENT methods. * 1906, William Dean Howells and Sidney Dillon Ripley, _Certain Delightful English Towns: With Glimpses of the Pleasant Country Between_, Harper & Brothers, page 152: The voice of the auctioneer is slow and low […] ; after a pause, which seems no SILENTER than the rest of the transaction, he ceases to repeat the bids, and his fish, in the measure of a bushel or so, have gone for a matter of three shillings. * Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative. * Broome Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most SILENT of men. * Milton This new-created world, whereof in hell / Fame is not SILENT. * Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed. _The wind is SILENT._ (Can we find and add a quotation of Parnell to this entry?) (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Raleigh to this entry?) * (pronunciation) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent. _The_ e _is silent in_ fable_._ * Having no effect; not operating; inefficient. * Sir Walter Raleigh Cause […] SILENT, virtueless, and dead. * (technology) Without audio capability. _The Magnavox Odyssey was a SILENT console._ * Hidden, unseen. _a SILENT voter; a SILENT partner_ * Not implying significant modifications which would affect a peptide sequence. * Undiagnosed or undetected because of an absence of symptoms. SYNONYMS * See also Wikisaurus:silent * dumb, mute, quiet, speechless, still, taciturn DERIVED TERMS TRANSLATIONS

SILENT (_plural_ SILENTS) * (uncountable) That which is silent; a time of silence. * The SILENT of the night. _Shakespeare_ * A silent movie TRANSLATIONS

* silent in _Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary_, G. & C. Merriam, 1913 * silent in _The Century Dictionary_, The Century Co., New York, 1911 * silent at _OneLook Dictionary Search_

* enlist * inlets * leints * listen * tinsel

SILENT * third-person plural present indicative of _siler_ * third-person plural present subjunctive of _siler_

* lisent

SILENT * third-person plural present active indicative of _sileō_