noiselessly en · ADV
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Etymology
Etymology tree English noiseless Middle English -ly English -ly English noiselessly From noiseless + -ly.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In a quiet manner, without any noise.
I now, O friend, whom noiselessly the snows / Settle around, and whose small chamber grows / Dusk as the sloping window takes its load:
1918, Robert Louis Stevenson, “I now, O friend, whom noiselessly the snows”, in New Poems, Chatto & Windus, page 101:Noiselessly she laid the clematis and wattle on her bed, then stood near the covered face, and, looking down at her untied bootlaces, sighed an impatient sigh always well known and understood by this now unresponsive father.
1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 127:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01:Not thirty paces behind the two she crouched--Sabor, the huge lioness--lashing her tail. Cautiously she moved a great padded paw forward, noiselessly placing it before she lifted the next. Thus she advanced; her belly low, almost touching the surface of the ground--a great cat preparing to spring upon its prey.
1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 5, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC:
Antonyms
Relateds
noisily · noise · noisy · noiseless
Synonyms
silently · quietly · inaudibly
Translations (15)
el αθόρυβα (in a quiet manner) · hu hangtalanul (in a quiet manner) · io silence (in a quiet manner) · nb lydløst (in a quiet manner) · ru бесшу́мно (in a quiet manner) · de geräuschlos (in a quiet manner) · pt sem fazer barulho (in a quiet manner) · cmn 無聲地 /无声地 (in a quiet manner) · mns-nor суйта̄лысь (in a quiet manner) · pl bezgłośnie (in a quiet manner) · pl bezszmerowo (in a quiet manner) · ja 音を立てずに (in a quiet manner) · pl bezszumnie (in a quiet manner) · fr sans bruit (in a quiet manner) · fi meluttomasti (in a quiet manner)