soundless

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English

Etymology

From sound +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

Adjective

soundless (comparative more soundless, superlative most soundless)

  1. Without sound.
    Synonyms: noiseless, silent
    • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
      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.
    • 1663, Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching the Usefulness of Experimental Naturall Philosophy‎, Oxford: Richard Davis, Essay 2, page 49:
      The Psalmist observes, That the Heavens declare the glory of God: And indeed, they celebrate his Praises, though with a soundless Voice, yet with so loud a one […] to our intellectual Ears, that he scruples not to affirm, that There is no Speech nor Language where their voice is not heard […]
    • 1797, Ann Radcliffe, chapter 7, in The Italian‎, volume 2, London: T. Cadell Junior & W. Davies, page 225:
      The whole building, with its dark windows and soundless avenues, had an air strikingly forlorn and solitary.
    • 1839 September, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, in Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine, volume 5, page 145:
      During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hang oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country […]
    • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad‎, London: Grant Richards, published 1898, XXXVIII, p. 55:
      The names of men blow soundless by,
      My fellows’ and my own.
    • 1984 August 18, Pam Mitchell, “We Must Not Silence Our Lives”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 6, page 8:
      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.
  2. Not capable of being sounded or fathomed.
    Synonyms: bottomless, depthless, fathomless, unfathomable
    • 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:
      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.
    • 1881, Walt Whitman, “Out from Behind This Mask (To Confront a Portrait)”, in Leaves of Grass‎, London: David Bogue, page 296:
      This heart’s geography’s map, this limitless small continent, this soundless sea;

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