Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having or making no sound. See Synonyms at still1.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Incapable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable.
- Having no sound; noiseless; silent; dumb.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable.
- adj. Having no sound; noiseless; silent.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. marked by absence of sound
Examples
“At the first cold touch of the elder’s embrace, Serena’s form contorted in soundless agony as she felt her essence torn apart and consumed.”
“How is the sea "soundless" in all senses of the word "sound," connoting stability, measurability, noise, or something free of flaws?”
“There was a kind of soundless implosion and explosion centering on the woman.”
Blue Adept
“The adjectives are especially worth study; in the first sentence try the effect of substituting for "soundless," "quiet," or”
“Suddenly I was drifting in a cocoon, soundless, lightless, no sharp edges or uneven surfaces.”
“The tiniest breeze eddied in from the garden, and I could feel its soundless tide, in and out, over my face.”
“Long nights around campfires and the gestures of Pierrot to Pierrot, the language of soundless articulations, of words born of cotton glove and shadows thrown across a clearing, of fingers deformed into brown bears.”
“Always a funeral with clowns, always a clown show with mutes in white face and polka dots, with men banished beneath the ruffles and the soundless gestures of mimes.”
“But most of all, this supposedly laconic and soundless generation saw the 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education that lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott that lead to the desegregation of Little Rock that became the fountainhead of one the most significant revolutions in America's public policy since our 18th Century independence - the Civil Rights Movement.”
The Huffington Post: Tom Alderman: 1950s: The Not-So-Silent Generation
“No love, but children that led to grandchildren that led to great-grandchildren and in between he was dead and buried, she standing upright at his graveside, dry eyes and soundless, as prayers were read and others cried.”
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