soundless
/ˈsaʊn(d)ləs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.11 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Without sound.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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 […]"
- "The whole building, with its dark windows and soundless avenues, had an air strikingly forlorn and solitary."
- "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 […]"
- "The names of men blow soundless by, My fellows’ and my own."
Etymology
Etymology tree English sound Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English soundless From sound + -less.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsaʊn(d)ləs/
- British English: /ˈsaʊn(d)ləs/
Inflected Forms
more soundless (comparative)
most soundless (superlative)