silentious
/saɪˈlɛn.ʃəs/
silentious adjective: habitually taciturn; prone to silence.
Adjective
silentious (comparative more silentious, superlative most silentious)
- Habitually taciturn; prone to silence.
- Yet Will had very good qualities too: gentle, tractable, and, above all, grateful; silentious, even to a fault: he spoke, at any time, very little, but made it up emphatically with action;1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill, Letter the First
- Can Bruce be other than Scotch? They are far more entertaining, I think, as well as informing, taken in the common run, than we silentious English; who, taken en masse, are tolerably dull.1832, Frances Burney, Memoirs of Doctor Burney, volume 2, London: Edward Moxon, pages 50–51
Forms of silentious
| comparative | more silentious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most silentious |
Origin of silentious
Borrowed from Latin silentiōsus. By surface analysis, silence + -ous.
Words that rhyme with silentious
Questions about silentious
- What does silentious mean?
- Silentious means habitually taciturn; prone to silence.
- What part of speech is silentious?
- Silentious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce silentious?
- Silentious is pronounced /saɪˈlɛn.ʃəs/.
Words near silentious in the dictionary
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