adv
Meaning 1
In a quiet manner, without any noise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
noiselessly
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adverb
Meaning 2
without a sound
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he stood up soundlessly and speechlessly and glided across the hallway and through a door
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: soundlessly
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English noiseless Middle English -ly English -ly English noiselessly From noiseless + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 無聲地 /无声地 (wúshēng de) — in a quiet manner
- Finnish: meluttomasti — in a quiet manner
- French: sans bruit — in a quiet manner
- German: geräuschlos — in a quiet manner
- Greek: αθόρυβα (athóryva) — in a quiet manner
- Hungarian: hangtalanul — in a quiet manner
- Ido: silence — in a quiet manner
- Japanese: 音を立てずに (oto o tatezu ni) — in a quiet manner
- Northern Mansi: суйта̄лысь (sujtālysʹ) — in a quiet manner
- Norwegian Bokmål: lydløst — in a quiet manner
- Polish: bezgłośnie — in a quiet manner
- Polish: bezszmerowo — in a quiet manner
- Polish: bezszumnie — in a quiet manner
- Portuguese: sem fazer barulho — in a quiet manner
- Russian: бесшу́мно (besšúmno) — in a quiet manner