"soundless" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /saʊndləs/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Forms: more soundless [comparative], most soundless [superlative]
Etymology: From sound + -less. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sound|less}} sound + -less Head templates: {{en-adj}} soundless (comparative more soundless, superlative most soundless)
  1. Without sound. Categories (topical): Silence Synonyms: noiseless, silent Translations (without sound): ἄθροος (áthroos) (Ancient Greek), ἄψοφος (ápsophos) (Ancient Greek), беззвучен (bezzvučen) (Bulgarian), безшумен (bezšumen) (Bulgarian), lydløs (Danish), støjløs (Danish), stille (Danish), tyst (Danish), geruisloos (Dutch), geluidloos (Dutch), äänetön (Finnish), insonoro [masculine] (Galician), insonora [feminine] (Galician), lautlos (German), geräuschlos (German), begarsis (Lithuanian), haumūmū (Maori), lydlaus (Norwegian Bokmål), lydløs (Norwegian Bokmål), ljodlaus (Norwegian Nynorsk), lydlaus (Norwegian Nynorsk), bezdźwięczny (Polish), bezgłośny (Polish), bezszelestny (Polish), insonoro [masculine] (Portuguese), insonora [feminine] (Portuguese), беззву́чный (bezzvúčnyj) (Russian), бесшу́мный (besšúmnyj) (english: noiseless) (Russian), insonoro (Spanish), ljudlös (Swedish), sessiz (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-soundless-en-adj-EKhjQo2C Disambiguation of Silence: 80 20 Disambiguation of 'without sound': 97 3
  2. Not capable of being sounded or fathomed. Synonyms: bottomless, depthless, fathomless, unfathomable
    Sense id: en-soundless-en-adj-60orx51R Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -less Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 95 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 12 88 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -less: 24 76
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: soundlessly, soundlessness Related terms: sound

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  "word": "soundless"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.