Word "SILENT" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
implied by or inferred from actions or statements
Synonyms:
tacit, understood
Examples:
gave silent consent

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to
Synonyms:
mum
Examples:
the witness remained silent

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
not made to sound
Synonyms:
unsounded
Examples:
the silent `h' at the beginning of `honor'

Crossword Clues for SILENT

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They're completely quiet: ____ ... leges inter arma, Cic. Mil. 11 The Times O Tempora 16 Aug 2025
Like the g in "gnat"
Soundless The Times Concise 01 Jul 2025
More than one was shot without a sound (6,4)
Not being voiced, is given over fast (6)
Mum ordered tinsel
Mum is flipping fast (6)
Mum is coming back some time before Easter (6)
How to listen to what is not voiced (6)
Mum is returning - had been loaned (6)
Nonspeaking Newsday 08 May 2025
Is giving up, at time to give up, saying nothing (6)
In order to listen?
Quiet, unspeaking (6)
Not making a sound New York Times Mini 03 May 2025
Listen out for mum The Sun Two Speed 20 Apr 2025
Soundless The Sun Two Speed 20 Apr 2025
"The __ homage of thoughts unspoken": Longfellow Newsday 19 Apr 2025
Mum is to get back, having given to temporarily (6)
Like Chaplin's "City Lights" Wall Street Journal 16 Apr 2025
Mum is going backwards fast (6)
___ Witness, Emilia Fox crime series (6)
Tangled tinsel makes no sound (6)
Long-running BBC forensic drama starring Emilia Fox, ______ Witness (6)
Listen to order that's quiet (6)
Hushed Thomas Joseph 29 Mar 2025
Having dried up on the lines badly the time after (6)
Not speaking about 8, 10 or 21 (6)
Saying nothing about 'Leonard'. It's misspelled (6)
UK forensics saga (______ Witness)
Is returned, having been loaned by mum (6)
Making no sound Newsday 10 Feb 2025
Forensic pathology-based TV thriller, now in its 28th series (6,7)
British cold case saga (______ Witness)
Mum, made to go, caught the 1:50 (6)
Not making a sound (6) Newsday 21 Jan 2025
Noiseless Mirror Quick 17 Jan 2025
Listen out for quiet Mirror Cryptic 17 Jan 2025
Mum is knocked back by period of fasting
The way mousy types eat? (6)
Listen in confusion but it's not making any sound
Noiseless The Telegraph Quick 20 Dec 2024
___ Night, famous carol (6)
Noiseless Mirror Quick 14 Dec 2024
Listen out for quiet Mirror Cryptic 14 Dec 2024
Mum is getting back, having loaned (6)
Mum will pose holding little Leonard (6)
Listen out - there's no noise (6)
Noiseless The Telegraph Quick 21 Nov 2024
Is getting up fast and saying nothing (6)
Saying nothing Commuter 15 Nov 2024
Mum, able to listen (6)
Listen strangely not spoken (6)
Hushed Thomas Joseph 07 Nov 2024
Having nothing to declare? (6)
8 not talking (6)
Enlist, possibly (in naval service?) (6)
Saying nothing about the inlets (6)
Sit around Len and be quiet! (6)
Hushed Thomas Joseph 18 Sep 2024
Quiet - that's the way to listen!
Listen out, but it's noiseless (6) Puzzler Cryptic 16 Sep 2024
Unspeaking (6)
Mirandizing word
Mum rearranged the tinsel (6)
Mum Wall Street Journal 14 Sep 2024
Neil's upset over time and lacking in words? (6)
Mum chance (6)
Sit holding the boy, saying not a word (6)
Is given up for a time before Easter without a word spoken (6)
Those who make a sound contribution won't be (6)
Saying nothing about it, Len's upset (6)
Noiseless(6)
Not making a peep
Saying nothing on subject
Persistent lot involved in form of civil disobedience (6,7)
Hushed Thomas Joseph 20 Jul 2024
Saying nothing Newsday 26 Jun 2024
Hushed Thomas Joseph 22 Jun 2024
Noiseless The Telegraph Quick 20 Jun 2024
Quiet, noiseless
Is, perhaps, not given to being uncommunicative (6)
Mum, listen for a change (6)
Not a sound: the room was totally -
Saying nothing like the leader of Djibouti? The Telegraph Cryptic 15 May 2024
non-noisy
'___ Night' is an Austrian carol whose original title was Heilige Nacht (6)
'- Night' is an Austrian carol whose original title was Heilige Nacht (6)
Mum is returning, having been allowed to borrow (6)
Hushed Thomas Joseph 27 Apr 2024
Private bidding arrangement is withdrawn by union in advanced action (6,7)
Tinsel
Mum is overfast (6)
Listen! It's out now! You can't hear it anymore!
Saying nothing when the tiles are broken: about a quarter (6)
Still is returned with a fast time
Listen without making a sound (6)
The sort of service for mum? (6)
Like some auctions and partners Wall Street Journal 23 Mar 2024
Crime drama with Emilia Fox, ______ Witness (6)
One may be so in order to listen (6)
Listen distractedly without making a sound (6)
". . . . . . was the flock in woolly fold" (The Eve of St Agnes, Keats) (6)
Shaken tinsel thus inaudible The Guardian Cryptic 26 Feb 2024
With no sound
Regularly slip by fast mum
And 11Ac There's not a sound when this is projected (6,4)
Listen distractedly without a sound (6)
Without a word, listen with attention (6)
Stateless?
Noiseless Mirror Quick 09 Feb 2024
Listen out when quiet Mirror Cryptic 09 Feb 2024
Listen! Come out here! There's not a sound!
Mum is coming over fast The Telegraph Toughie 19 Jan 2024
Saying nothing when put into ecstasy over the Italian (6)
Mum is coming over fast (6)
Noiselees (6)
Making no sound, Basil entered extract
Like the "s" in "aisle" and "island" New York Times Mini 30 Dec 2023
Speechless Family Time 27 Nov 2023
Listen out, though nothing heard (6) Puzzler Cryptic 05 Nov 2023
"You need to be ___ to listen," popular phrase with the anagram of "listen"
Like the start of 'Psycho'? Wall Street Journal 05 Aug 2023
Mum Eugene Sheffer 26 Jul 2023
Listen out for mum The Telegraph Toughie 12 Jul 2023
Cellphone setting New York Times 11 Jun 2023
Unspoken Premier Sunday 21 May 2023
Phone mode for a theater New York Times 27 Feb 2023
The __, 2022 film telling the stories of June and Jennifer Gibbons The Guardian Weekend 21 Jan 2023
Like the 'e' in 'mime' Wall Street Journal 09 Jan 2023
Apt anagram for "listen" Universal 26 Dec 2022
"___ Night," Christmas carol that was first sung on December 24th, 1818
Is uplifting part of Christian year, like parts of hymn and psalm
"___ Hill," horror video game created by Keiichiro Toyama
Unvoiced Newsday 20 Nov 2022
Clamming up Newsday 10 Nov 2022
Hushed Thomas Joseph 20 Oct 2022
Like some letters and partners Wall Street Journal 19 Oct 2022
Like some auctions LA Times Daily 06 Oct 2022
Transmitted about one line without noise The Times Cryptic 03 Oct 2022
Mum Thomas Joseph 08 Sep 2022
Mum is reversing fast The Times Cryptic 22 Jul 2022
Mum LA Times Daily 14 Jul 2022
Like some partners LA Times Daily 22 May 2022
'Were you ___? Or were you silenced?' (37-Down quote) USA Today 16 May 2022
Hushed Thomas Joseph 30 Apr 2022
Mum The Guardian Quick 16 Mar 2022
Dumb revolutionary is allowed outside Norway
With zipped lip Newsday 21 Jan 2022
Like the "z" in "rendezvous" Universal 31 Dec 2021
"___ Night" (Popular Christmas carol)
Old film is making a comeback fast
Listen out for quiet 
Spades I loaned mum The Telegraph Cryptic 14 Sep 2021
Is screwed and given a grant? That's dumb
Inaudible The Telegraph Quick 18 Apr 2021
Saying nothing as is head of psychology, for example The Telegraph Cryptic 03 Mar 2021
Like the first 'd' in 'Wednesday' New York Times 23 Feb 2021
Mapimi ___ Zone, mysterious desert patch in Mexico where compasses or radio signals don't work
Reserved like gin in champagne!
Like the opening letter of each of the four longest answers Jonesin 02 Feb 2021
"___ Coup," book by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin that proposes an alternate explanation for the Watergate scandal
Mum let sin get out of control
Christmas Eve was such a quiet night
& 8 Across Len is stupidly tipsy round mid-morning in 17ac The Telegraph Toughie 25 Dec 2020
Listen out for mum
Hushed Thomas Joseph 24 Oct 2020
"___ Night" (Christmas carol)
Saying nothing Newsday 21 Oct 2020
Word 1 of a Christmas classic Canadiana 14 Sep 2020
Mum Wall Street Journal 19 Aug 2020
Quiet The Telegraph Quick 16 Jul 2020
Mum may see son fast after Italy The Telegraph Cryptic 08 Jul 2020
Noiseless The Times Concise 01 Jul 2020
Panellist misses pal still Irish Times Crosaire 11 Jun 2020
Soundless Irish Times Simplex 11 Jun 2020
Like the third letter of "talking" Universal 17 May 2020
See 50-Across Universal 04 May 2020
Popular Christmas carol, "___ Night"
Mute The Times Concise 16 Apr 2020
Saying nothing is kept up over period of religious observance
Omitting of mention, in contract-ese Newsday 21 Mar 2020
Dumb and slow at the start, after interval begins to get fast
Dumb as leading character in Psycho? The Sun Two Speed 29 Feb 2020
Soundless The Sun Two Speed 29 Feb 2020
Cold kind of treatment Universal 23 Feb 2020
Mum is retrogressing fast
Mum Newsday 20 Oct 2019
Dumb as leading character in Psycho?
Like all pre-1927 movies USA Today 08 Sep 2019
Mum New York Times 13 Aug 2019
Like three of the letters of 'aisle' New York Times 19 Jun 2019
Mum is upset ahead of religious period The Telegraph Cryptic 07 May 2019
Like early 10s, one's rising fast
Like some partners Wall Street Journal 28 Mar 2019
Muted to the max LA Times Daily 17 Feb 2019
Muted to the max The Washington Post 17 Feb 2019
. Quiet and fast, primarily seen inching ahead
With 63 Across, source of quote Newsday 01 Feb 2019
Muted to the max
Like all pre-1927 movies
Like some partners
Mum
Like three of the letters of "aisle"
Not making any noise Irish Times Simplex 29 Dec 2018
... still audibly exhale topping fast time The Telegraph Toughie 25 Oct 2018
Making no sound The Times Concise 20 Sep 2018
Still half sick, left hospital department The Telegraph Cryptic 13 Sep 2018
Still, it is Mum!
Not talking Newsday 16 Aug 2018
Djibouti's leading character is this The Telegraph Cryptic 15 Jun 2018
Mum is regressing fast
Like airports that do not make announcements
Still, lift is fast The Telegraph Cryptic 26 Mar 2018
Is perversely advanced still
Like early movies USA Today 14 Mar 2018
Listen out for mum
Quiet The Sun Two Speed 05 Feb 2018
Listen out, but it's noiseless The Sun Two Speed 05 Feb 2018
Still at a loss for words Irish Times Crosaire 05 Jan 2018
Like the first "d" in "Wednesday"
Like the last letter in a column? LA Times Daily 29 Dec 2017
Like the last letter in a column? The Washington Post 29 Dec 2017
Like some initial P's Jonesin 14 Nov 2017
Like most Chaplin films LA Times Daily 12 Oct 2017
Like most Chaplin films The Washington Post 12 Oct 2017
Mum is returning by period of fasting
Speechless Newsday 17 Sep 2017
Like the letters omitted from the starred answers (collected here) Wall Street Journal 13 Sep 2017
Keeping mum and boy in squat
Mum is receding fast
Tight-lipped Premier Sunday 30 Apr 2017
Zipped Newsday 29 Apr 2017
Strange and astonishing thing The Times Concise 21 Apr 2017
Is back fast without a sound
Mute Irish Times Simplex 06 Feb 2017
Refusing to communicate as lead character in Psycho? The Times Cryptic 02 Jan 2017
Like most Chaplin films
Like the last letter in a column?
Mum The Washington Post 28 Dec 2016
Noiseless The Telegraph Quick 08 Nov 2016
Listen in a way to Mum Irish Times Crosaire 04 Nov 2016
Mum Universal 19 Sep 2016
Old movie Thomas Joseph 01 Sep 2016
With 71-Across, pre-talkies time Premier Sunday 24 Jul 2016
Mum Eugene Sheffer 16 Jun 2016
Muted The Telegraph Quick 08 May 2016
Mum Thomas Joseph 02 May 2016
Kind of treatment New York Times 21 Apr 2016
Like lead character of knight, say, in old film The Times Cryptic 15 Apr 2016
Making no sounds Universal 16 Mar 2016
I slowly start returning what was given by mum
With 56-Down, pre-talkies time Premier Sunday 24 Jan 2016
Mum
Free from noise Irish Times Simplex 30 Dec 2015
Is returning from the French borders of Nantucket speechless
Mum is upset -- time to give things up? The Telegraph Cryptic 04 Sep 2015
Mum USA Today 04 Aug 2015
Listen trembling on the QT Irish Times Crosaire 01 Jul 2015
Is uplifted over church season, like a Trappist
Listen another way, as it's inaudible Irish Times Crosaire 15 Jun 2015
Like some partners LA Times Daily 03 May 2015
South Indian gave money to mum
Closed up LA Times Daily 07 Mar 2015
... described thus Eugene Sheffer 28 Feb 2015
Omitting mention, as in a contract Newsday 14 Feb 2015
Nonspeaking Universal 14 Feb 2015
Listen foolishly to mum Irish Times Crosaire 30 Jan 2015
Anagram of 7 Down The Telegraph Quick 24 Jan 2015
Making no sound Newsday 12 Jan 2015
Nonspeaking
Omitting mention, as in a contract
Mum
Closed up
Like some partners
Hushed
Like Arbuckle's films
Like some auctions
___ movies (8-, 20-, 39- and 57-Across, in a way)
Not talking
Tying up loose ends isn't dumb
Mum
Uncommunicative
Making no sound
Like Fatty Arbuckle's films
Like one "k" in "knuckle"
Mum
Mike and the Mechanics "___ Running"
Not providing any hints, say
Speechless
Speechless
How Mike & the Mechanics ran?
In the background, perhaps
Like the Best Picture of 2011
Muted
Like a respectful librarygoer
Still
Like many old movies
Saying nothing
Like many old movies
Like some alarms
Mum
Like the "h" in honor
Like the "h" in honor
Like 33-Down's films
Kind of majority
Like some partners
Unspoken
Clammy?
Making no sound
Word in a Christmas carol title
Mute
Mum
Like Nixon's "majority"
"__ Cal"
Still
Unvoiced
Word in a Christmas carol title
Like a very old movie
Still
Kind of partner or treatment
Like the "p" in psychology
Mute
Like early films
Like early films
Unpronounced
Hushed
Old movie
Not speaking
Noiseless
Like Fatty Arbuckle's films
Like some auctions
Like Arbuckle's films
Still
Like Arbuckle's films
Like most Theda Bara films
Like some alarms
Kind of majority
Like early '20s movies
Soundless
Making no sound
"___ Night"
Type of film
Speechless
Like some auctions
Clamming up
Nonspeaking
Still
Word with butler or majority
Noiseless
Like some auctions
Like some partners
Like a D. W. Griffith film
Like Marcel Marceau, on film
Hushed
Hushed
With 39-Across, Coolidge's nickname
Buttoned up
Not exactly garrulous
Not apt to yap
Gruber's night
Like films before "The Jazz Singer"
Golden?
Like the P of Pfizer
Like the "k" in "knee"
Like most Theda Bara films
Like Arbuckle's films
Hushed
Type of auction
Run ____ Run Deep
Partner type
Kind of majority
Anagram for enlist
R.Carson's "___ Spring"
With 45 Down, milieu for quiet ladies
Carson's "___ Spring"
Inarticulate
Anagram of tinsel or enlist
Kind of film
Taciturn
"___ Spring," R. Carson book
Mute
Unexpressed
Like some butlers
Word with "Night" or "Spring"
Word for Cal Coolidge
Kind of partner
"___ Spring"
Type of night
Type of film
Tacit.
Awestruck.
Taciturn.
Reticent.
Film with subtitles.
Quiet.
Hushed.
Stilled.
Stealthy.
Still.
Kind of partner.
Omitting mention.
Mum.
Kind of partner or butler.
___ partner.
Inactive.
Uncommunicative.
Unspoken.
"___ Night" by Josef Mohr.
"___ majority"
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