SPEAKING Antonyms

• the act of hearing attentively

• of China

• informal terms for a mother

• secrecy

• failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to

• a deaf person who is unable to speak

• a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument

• expressed without speech

• unable to speak because of hereditary deafness

• deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

• characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity

• free of noise or uproar; or making little if any sound

• (of the sun) characterized by a low level of surface phenomena, such as sunspots

• a period of calm weather

• an untroubled state; free from disturbances

• the absence of sound

• a disposition free from stress or emotion

• with little or no activity or no agitation (`quiet' is a nonstandard variant for `quietly')

• not showy or obtrusive

• in a softened tone

• (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves

• become quiet or quieter

• make calm or still

• marked by absence of sound

• failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to

• implied by or inferred from actions or statements

• not made to sound

• having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility

• unable to speak because of hereditary deafness

• expressed without speech

• temporarily incapable of speaking

• habitually reserved and uncommunicative

• not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions

• expressed without speech

• not capable of or especially not involving speech or spoken lines

• Silent, not talking.

• Mute, unable to speak for physical or psychological reasons.

• To retract what one has spoken, to unsay.