NOISELESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does noiseless mean? 

• NOISELESS (adjective)
  The adjective NOISELESS has 1 sense:

1. making no sound

  Familiarity information: NOISELESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOISELESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Making no sound

Context example:

th' inaudible and noiseless foot of time

Similar:

quiet (free of noise or uproar; or making little if any sound)

Derivation:

noiselessness (the property of making no noise)

 Context examples 

We slipped along the hedges, noiseless and swift, nor did we see or hear anything to increase our terrors, till, to our relief, the door of the Admiral Benbow had closed behind us.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I knew that if I were face to face with him I could tear his throat out, but I must so arrange that the fashion of his death should be a noiseless one.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It is a noiseless lock,” said he.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As they slid along, noiseless as shadows, in the moonlight, they came upon a run-way.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Rosa Dartle, entering this way with a noiseless step, when we were close to them, addressed herself to me: “You do well,” she said, “indeed, to bring this fellow here!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

An admirable and unique weapon, said he, noiseless and of tremendous power: I knew Von Herder, the blind German mechanic, who constructed it to the order of the late Professor Moriarty.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hers was an extreme lithesomeness, and she moved with a certain indefinable airiness, approaching one as down might float or as a bird on noiseless wings.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A few yards off he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless fashion which was peculiar to him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Wherever Agnes was, some agreeable token of her noiseless presence seemed inseparable from the place.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)