Adjective silent has 6 senses
  1. silent, soundless, still - marked by absence of sound; "a silent house"; "soundless footsteps on the grass"; "the night was still"
    Antonym: noisy (indirect, via quiet)
  2. mum, silent - failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to; "the witness remained silent"
    Antonyms: communicative, communicatory (indirect, via uncommunicative)
  3. implied, silent, tacit, understood - indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly; "gave silent consent"; "a tacit agreement"; "the understood provisos of a custody agreement"
    Antonyms: explicit, expressed (indirect, via implicit)
  4. silent, unsounded - not made to sound; "the silent `h' at the beginning of `honor'"; "in French certain letters are often unsounded"
    Antonyms: audible, hearable (indirect, via inaudible)
  5. silent - having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility; "a silent dog whistle"
    Antonyms:
    audible, hearable (indirect, via inaudible)
  6. dumb, mute, silent - unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
    Antonym: articulate (indirect, via inarticulate)
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