without a sound
Making no noise
Without a sound means in complete silence, making no noise whatsoever.
The phrase emphasizes stealth or sudden absence: She slipped out of the room without a sound.
It can describe both deliberate quietness and eerie stillness: The bird dropped from the sky without a sound.
- sneakinessFurtive, deceptive quality
- cat burglarThief who climbs buildings
- mutenessInability to speak
- stillnessComplete lack of motion
- noiselessnessQuality of being soundless
hush · inaudibility · subtlety · snowfall · undetectability · surreptitiousness · tranquility · covertness · slipping away · vacuum · holding breath · quietude · secrecy · vanishing act · tacit understanding · stealthiness · twilight · calm
without a soundloudly
With great volume
noisily · audibly · thunderously · deafeningly · boisterously
without a soundconspicuously
In an attention-grabbing manner
obtrusively · making a racket · crashingly · ostentatiously · dramatically
without, sound, with, sounds, sounded, sounding, soundly, soundless, soundlessly