soundless
Syllables: sound·lessUK/ˈsaʊn(d)ləs/
soundless adjective: without sound.
Adjective
soundless (comparative more soundless, superlative most soundless)
- Without sound.
- a soundless tableau
- Cassius. […] for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,
And leave them honeyless.
Antony. Not stingless too.
Brutus. O yes, and soundless too;
For you have stol’n their buzzing, Antony,
And very wisely threat before you sting.1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- Not capable of being sounded or fathomed.
- the soundless deep
- Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat,
Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride;1609, William Shakespeare, “(please specify the sonnet number)”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- bottomless, depthless, fathomless, unfathomable, unsoundable
soundless meaning in Urdu and Bengali
soundless in Urdu
- بےآواز, ساکت
soundless in Bengali
- soundless
- শব্দহীন śobdohin
Examples of soundless in a sentence
- The whole building, with its dark windows and soundless avenues, had an air strikingly forlorn and solitary.1797, Ann Radcliffe, chapter 7, in The Italian, volume 2, London: T. Cadell Junior & W. Davies, page 225:
- All day a woman across the room from me has been rolling up her pages scroll-like and smoothing them out as soundless tears cascade down her face.1984 August 18, Pam Mitchell, “We Must Not Silence Our Lives”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 6, page 8:
- This heart’s geography’s map, this limitless small continent, this soundless sea;1881, Walt Whitman, “Out from Behind This Mask (To Confront a Portrait)”, in Leaves of Grass, London: David Bogue, page 296:
Synonyms of soundless
Forms of soundless
| comparative | more soundless |
|---|---|
| superlative | most soundless |
Origin of soundless
From sound + -less.
Words formed from soundless
Questions about soundless
- What does soundless mean?
- Soundless means without sound.
- What is soundless in Urdu?
- Soundless in Urdu is بےآواز, ساکت. See Soundless meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use soundless in a sentence?
- The whole building, with its dark windows and soundless avenues, had an air strikingly forlorn and solitary.
- What part of speech is soundless?
- Soundless is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce soundless?
- Soundless is pronounced /ˈsaʊn(d)ləs/ (UK).
Words near soundless in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: soundless (page history and authors); soundless (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); শব্দহীন (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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