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silent
Part of speech: AdjectiveSaying nothing; mute; not given to speech; quiet; still; free from noise or disturbance; unexpressed; unspoken; as, a silent comment; having a share, not publicly acknowledged, in a business; as, a silent partner.
Part of speech: AdverbSilently.
Part of speech: NounSilentness.
Usage examples "silent":- Both children were silent, for their mother had taken up a book. - "The Young Emigrants; Madelaine Tube; The Boy and the Book; and Crystal Palace", Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick.
- I then sat silent for some time. - "The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17", Charles Francis Horne.
- But she was silent, perhaps waiting for him to speak. - "The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories", Anton Chekhov.