Soundless

Definition: Soundless

Soundless

Adjective

1. Marked by absence of sound; "a silent house"; "soundless footsteps on the grass"; "the night was still".

Date "soundless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references)

Synonyms: Soundless

Synonyms: silent (adj), still (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Depth	Bottomless, soundless, fathomless; unfathomed, unfathomable; abysmal; deep as a well; bathycolpian; benthal, benthopelagic; downreaching, yawning.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Soundless

English words defined with "soundless": Cygnus olor ♦ Eutrophy ♦ mute swan. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Down to a Soundless Sea (reference) Lisa and Her Soundless World (reference) Om Shantih, shantih, shantih : the soundless sound, peace, peace, peace (reference) Soundless Loves (reference) The Soundless Music of Life (Discourses in Metapsychiatry Series) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Soundless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Soundless" is used about 53 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	53	46,657

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "soundless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i pazëshëm (surd, voiceless). (various references)

Arabic		‏غير ملفوظ (silent). (various references)

Bulgarian		безшумен (mousey, noiseless, quiet, silent, still), беззвучен (mute, noiseless, sharp, surd, toneless, unvoiced, voiceless). (various references)

Czech		tichý (calm, mum, noiseless, Pacific, peaceable, quiet, restful, silent, still, stock-still, subdued, tacit, tranquil, unspoken), nehluèný (noiseless, quiet). (various references)

Finnish		äänetön (silent, still, tacit). (various references)

French		silencieux (sound absorber, sound moderator). (various references)

German		lautlos (complete, noiseless, noiselessly, silent, silently, soundlessly, utter), geräuschlos (noiseless, noiselessly, silent). (various references)

Greek		σιωπών, άηχοσ, αθόρυβοσ (noiseless). (various references)

Hungarian		hangtalan (silent, speechless, toneless, voiceless). (various references)

Italian		senza suono. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		無音 (long silence). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		むお�". (various references)

Pig Latin		oundlesssay

Portuguese		silencioso (damper, half-light, muffler, noiseless, quiescent, quiet, silencer, silent, speechless, tuneless), sem som, mudo (aphonic, dumb, mute, speechless, toneless, unsounded, unvoiced, voiceless, wordless), insondável (abysmal, bottomless, fathomless, unfathomable). (various references)

Russian		беззвучный (dumb, noiseless, tuneless). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		bezvučan (unvoiced, voiceless), bez dna (abysmal, bottomless). (various references)

Spanish		sin ruido (noiseless, soundlessly), silencioso (mute, noiseless, quiescent, quiet, silent, silently, still), insonoro (voiceless). (various references)

Swedish		ljudlös (noiseless, noiseproof, noisless). (various references)

Thai		เงียบ (clam up, hush, hushed, muted, nark it, shush, silent). (various references)

Turkish		sessiz (close-tongued, dumb, hushed, mum, mute, muted, noiseless, nonviolent, non-violent, quiescent, quiet, reserved, reticent, silent, speechless, still, surd, tacit, taciturn, tuneless, unvoiced, voiceless, without a sound, wordless), gürültüsüz (calm, noiseless, quiet, without a sound). (various references)

Ukrainian		тихий (airless, calm, dormant, low, noiseless, peaceful, quiet, silent, still, stilly, under), невимірний (fathomless, measureless), мовчазний (broody, dumb, inarticulate, mum, mute, obmutescent, quiescent, reticent, silent, stilly, tacit, taciturn, tight lipped, uncommunicative, wordless), беззвучний (aphonic, dumb). (various references)

Vietnamese		không kêu (sound-damping, unvoiced), câm (dumb, mute). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "soundless": soundlessly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Soundless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: poundless, soudness. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-l-n-o-s-s-s-u"
	-1 letter: loudness.
	-2 letters: dossels, dulness, ensouls, lessons, loudens, nodules, oldness, sonless, sunless.
	-3 letters: dossel, dosses, douses, dulses, ensoul, lesson, lodens, losses, louden, loused, louses, nodule, nouses, onuses, ousels, soleus, sondes, souled, sounds, soused, souses, sudses, sussed, undoes, unless, unsold.
	-4 letters: doles, doses, douse, duels, dulse, dunes, enols, lends, lenos, leuds, loden, lodes, loess, loses, louse.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-l-n-o-s-s-s-u"
	+1 letter: loudnesses.
	+2 letters: soundlessly.
	+3 letters: cloudinesses, dolorousness, doublenesses, sedulousness.
	+4 letters: boundlessness, cloudlessness, credulousness, deliciousness, deliriousness, desultoriness, dissoluteness, dolefulnesses, doubtlessness, ludicrousness, melodiousness, pendulousness, ungodlinesses.
	+5 letters: dolorousnesses, doubtfulnesses, groundlessness, idolatrousness, libidinousness, malodorousness, nondisclosures, outlandishness, ridiculousness, scandalousness, sedulousnesses, slanderousness, subadolescents.
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