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NOISELESSLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without a sound

Example:

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

Synonyms:

noiselessly; soundlessly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

noiseless (making no sound)

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 Context examples: 

Through the forest they crept noiselessly, Buck at the hairy man’s heels; and they were alert and vigilant, the pair of them, ears twitching and moving and nostrils quivering, for the man heard and smelled as keenly as Buck.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

She listened for an instant, threw up her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and as noiselessly as she had come.

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

I rolled out of my blankets and crept noiselessly after him in my stocking feet.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

No longer afraid of leaving her, I noiselessly turned back again; and alarmed the house as I went out.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It beckoned, gliding noiselessly before him down a corridor as dark and cold as any tomb.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He could slip in noiselessly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This, indeed, he might easily have been if he had been less absorbed, for footsteps fell noiselessly on the sandy ground outside; but even my entrance failed to rouse him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Jo laughed noiselessly all through the hall, but Amy looked disgusted at the failure of her instructions, and very naturally laid the blame upon Jo.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She was soon back, and while noiselessly taking off her cloak, Laurie came in with a letter, saying that Mr. March was mending again.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She put on her hat and jacket as noiselessly as possible, and going to the back entry window, got out upon the roof of a low porch, swung herself down to the grassy bank, and took a roundabout way to the road.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)