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soundless

adj
/ˈsaʊn(d)ləs/US

Etymology

From sound + -less.

  1. derived from sonō
  2. derived from soner
  3. derived from suner
  4. inherited from sownden
  5. derived from *swenh₂-✻
  6. derived from sonus
  7. derived from son
  8. derived from sun
  9. inherited from sownde
  10. suffixed as soundless — “sound + less”

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. 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;
    • 1614, Christopher Brooke, The Ghost of Richard the Third, London: L. Lisle, “The Legend of Richard the Third,” Nor Wits, nor Chronicles could ere containe, The Hell-deepe Reaches, of my soundlesse Braine.

The neighborhood

Derived

soundlessly, soundlessness

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for soundless. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA