SPEECHIFYING Antonyms

• the act of hearing attentively

• being or made softer or less loud or clear

• wrapped up especially for protection or secrecy

• of China

• informal terms for a mother

• secrecy

• failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to

• a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech

• a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone

• making a low continuous indistinct sound

• making no sound

• 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

• marked by absence of sound