NOISELESSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does noiselessly mean? 

• NOISELESSLY (adverb)
  The adverb NOISELESSLY has 1 sense:

1. without a sound

  Familiarity information: NOISELESSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOISELESSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without a sound

Synonyms:

noiselessly; soundlessly

Context example:

he stood up soundlessly and speechlessly and glided across the hallway and through a door

Pertainym:

noiseless (making no sound)

 Context examples 

My companion noiselessly closed the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes round the room.

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

His sleep was broken by infant wails and visions of a phantom figure pacing noiselessly to and fro in the watches of the night.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As we severally pushed away our plates, he noiselessly removed them, and set on the cheese.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He passed close beside us, stole over to the window, and very softly and noiselessly raised it for half a foot.

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

The man went off noiselessly and swiftly, but was back in a few minutes with a flat brown basket.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I took off my shoes when I gained the forecastle head, and went noiselessly aft in my stocking feet.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Then, thinking that I was still asleep, she slipped noiselessly from the room, and an instant later I heard a sharp creaking which could only come from the hinges of the front door.

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

And to add confusion to confusion, there was the servant, an unceasing menace, that appeared noiselessly at his shoulder, a dire Sphinx that propounded puzzles and conundrums demanding instantaneous solution.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

For a moment they stood grouped together at the other extremity of the gallery, conversing in a key of sweet subdued vivacity: they then descended the staircase almost as noiselessly as a bright mist rolls down a hill.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As we walked noiselessly amid the thick, soft carpet of decaying vegetation the hush fell upon our souls which comes upon us in the twilight of the Abbey, and even Professor Challenger's full-chested notes sank into a whisper.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)