Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having or making no noise. synonym: quiet.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Making no noise or bustle; silent.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Making, or causing, no noise or bustle; without noise; silent.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Producing no noise; without noise.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective making no sound

Etymologies

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noise +‎ -less

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Examples

  • To and fro she went, in noiseless ministry, as the long, dreadful days wore away, with a quiet smile on her lips, and in her dark, sorrowful eyes the rapt look of a pictured saint in some dim cathedral niche.

    Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920

  • Her dress was of a soft kind of serge, which fell around her or swept across the rooms in noiseless yielding folds.

    Daisy 1868

  • All the other extenders are noiseless, which is a big deal for some people. because they do PHP5, MySQL5, PostgreSQL 8, cPanel, Ruby on Rails, and SSH / Shell.

    Ed Bott's Windows Expertise 2008

  • It started as a kind of noiseless shaking, then guffawing, on to tears, and he ended by taking out his handkerchief and blowing his big nose.

    Goodnight, Irene Burke, Jan 1993

  • Above me, the many constellations passed in a strange, 'noiseless' circling, Westwards.

    The House on the Borderland: Chapter 15 1908

  • "Hundreds of incompetent decisions are made in the Kremlin and White House (government headquarters) ... in precisely this 'noiseless' fashion without public discussion or criticism," liberal politician Vladimir Ryzhkov wrote in The Moscow Times.

    Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories 2010

  • What is needed is a knowledge base for machines to look up "noiseless" information.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2009

  • What is needed is a knowledge base for machines to look up "noiseless" information.

    ReadWriteWeb Alexander Korth 2009

  • "noiseless" fashion without public discussion or criticism.

    The Moscow Times By Vladimir Ryzhkov 2010

  • In the film, a series of pods whisk citizens around the city in noiseless comfort at supersonic speed.

    Roads Get Smart Charlie Corbett 2011

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