Word Meanings - SILENTIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Habitually silent; taciturn; reticent.

Related words: (words related to SILENTIOUS)

• SILENTIARY
  One appointed to keep silence and order in court; also, one sworn not to divulge secre
• SILENT
  Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable." 5. Having no effect; not operating; inefficient. Cause . . . silent, virtueless, and dead. Sir W. Raleigh. Silent partner. See Dormant partner, under Dormant. Syn. -- Mute;
• TACITURNITY
  Habilual silence, or reserve in speaking. The cause of Addison's taciturnity was a natural diffidence in the company of strangers. V. Knox. The taciturnity and the short answers which gave so much offense. Macaulay.
• TACITURN
  Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak. -- Tac"i*turn*ly, adv. Syn. -- Silent; reserved. Taciturn, Silent. Silent has reference to the act; taciturn, to the habit. A man may be silent from circumstances; he is taciturn
• SILENTIOUS
  Habitually silent; taciturn; reticent.
• SILENTNESS
  State of being silent; silence.
• SILENTLY
  In a silent manner.
• RETICENT
  Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.