Synonyms for Silence:

• n.

  •
  • assassinate,
  • bump off,
  • censorship,
  • dispatch,
  • quietness,
  • quietude,
  • strangle.
  •
  • dismissal,
  • refusal,
  • rejection,
  • reserve,
  • resistance,
  • reticence,
  • veto.
  •
  • check,
  • restrain,
  • stop,
  • wordlessness.
  •
  • inaudible,
  • noiseless,
  • silent,
  • soundless.
  •absence of sound, speech (noun)
  • calm,
  • censorship,
  • death,
  • dumbness,
  • hush,
  • hush-hush,
  • iron curtain,
  • laconism,
  • lull,
  • muteness,
  • noiselessness,
  • peace,
  • quiescence,
  • quiet,
  • quietness,
  • quietude,
  • quietus,
  • reserve,
  • reticence,
  • secrecy,
  • sleep,
  • speechlessness,
  • still,
  • stillness,
  • sulk,
  • sullenness,
  • taciturnity,
  • uncommunicativeness,
  • Inarticulateness,
  • dead air,
  • saturninity,
  • blackout.
  •attribute (noun)
  • quiet.
  •calm (noun)
  • peacefulness,
  • placidity,
  • placidness,
  • quietude,
  • tranquillity.
  •concealment (noun)
  • secrecy.
  •deafness (noun)
  • deaf-mute,
  • deafness,
  • stone-deafness.
  •death (noun)
  • decease,
  • passing.
  •dumbness (noun)
  • dumbness,
  • speechlessness,
  • taciturnity,
  • voicelessness.
  •inactivity (noun)
  • rest.
  •non-resonance (noun)
  • deadness,
  • dullness,
  • flatness,
  • muteness,
  • non-resonance.
  •quiet (noun)
  • hush,
  • still.
  •restraint (noun)
  • restraint.
  •secrecy (noun)
  • confidentiality,
  • secretiveness,
  • Clandestinity,
  • Secretness,
  • huggermugger.
  •silence (noun)
  • hush,
  • hush up,
  • inaudibility,
  • lull,
  • muteness,
  • noiselessness,
  • quiet,
  • quieten,
  • secrecy,
  • secretiveness,
  • shut up,
  • soundlessness,
  • still,
  • stillness.

• v.

  •change (verb)
  • hush,
  • hush up,
  • quieten,
  • shut up,
  • still.
  •disprove (verb)
  • confute.
  •make or be quiet (verb)
  • choke off,
  • clam,
  • clam up,
  • close up,
  • cool it,
  • cut short,
  • dampen,
  • deaden,
  • dry up,
  • dull,
  • dumb,
  • dummy up,
  • extinguish,
  • gag,
  • muffle,
  • mute,
  • muzzle,
  • overawe,
  • pipe down,
  • quash,
  • quell,
  • quiet down,
  • quieten,
  • shush,
  • shut up,
  • squelch,
  • stifle,
  • strike dumb,
  • subdue,
  • suppress,
  • sit on,
  • decrease the volume,
  • hold one's tongue,
  • hush one's mouth,
  • keep it down,
  • say nothing,
  • tongue-tie.
  •quiet (verb)
  • deaden,
  • dull,
  • muffle,
  • quiet,
  • still,
  • turn down.
  •silence (verb)
  • mute,
  • shush.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • interdiction,
  • noiseless,
  • nonacceptance,
  • quell,
  • quietness,
  • rebuttal,
  • refusal,
  • restrain,
  • restraint,
  • shackle,
  • soundless,
  • waylay,
  • wordlessness.
  •
  • blacklist,
  • gag,
  • keep down,
  • monopolize,
  • pacify,
  • peace,
  • prohibition,
  • rest,
  • sulk,
  • sit on.
  •
  • dismissal,
  • foil,
  • revolt,
  • sandbag,
  • veto.
  •
  • muzzle,
  • silent.
  •
  • rejection,
  • resistance.
  •humble
  • strike dumb.
  •isolation
  • solitude.
  •pacify
  • placate.
  •quiet
  • clam up,
  • cool it,
  • can it.
  •stop
  • choke off.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abash,
  • absorb,
  • allay,
  • alleviate,
  • always,
  • anagoge,
  • answer,
  • anticyclone,
  • aphonia,
  • appease,
  • Arriere Pensee,
  • asphyxiate,
  • assassinate,
  • assuage,
  • ataraxia,
  • be quiet,
  • belt up,
  • blacklist,
  • blow up,
  • blunt,
  • bottle up,
  • brain,
  • break,
  • brevity,
  • briefness,
  • bring down,
  • brusqueness,
  • bump off,
  • bury,
  • button up,
  • cabala,
  • calm,
  • calm down,
  • calmly,
  • calmness,
  • censor,
  • censorship,
  • check,
  • choke,
  • choke off,
  • clam,
  • clam up,
  • close up,
  • closeness,
  • composure,
  • conceal,
  • concealment,
  • conciseness,
  • confidentiality,
  • confound,
  • confute,
  • constantly,
  • contemplation,
  • contradict,
  • control,
  • controvert,
  • cool it,
  • coolly,
  • cork,
  • cork up,
  • cramp,
  • cripple,
  • crush,
  • curb,
  • curtness,
  • cut down,
  • cut short,
  • damp,
  • dampen,
  • de-emphasize,
  • dead,
  • death,
  • decease,
  • deck,
  • defeat,
  • deflate,
  • demise,
  • demolish,
  • deny,
  • despatch,
  • destroy,
  • disable,
  • disarm,
  • discourage,
  • disenable,
  • disintegrate,
  • dismiss,
  • dismissal,
  • dispatch,
  • dispose of,
  • disprove,
  • disqualify,
  • dissolution,
  • do away with,
  • do in,
  • double up,
  • drop,
  • drown,
  • dry up,
  • dully,
  • dumb,
  • dumbfound,
  • dumbly,
  • dummy,
  • dummy up,
  • ease,
  • eliminate,
  • emasculate,
  • enchain,
  • erase,
  • evasion,
  • ever,
  • execute,
  • explode,
  • expose,
  • extinguish,
  • faintly,
  • falsetto,
  • fell,
  • finish,
  • floor,
  • foil,
  • gag,
  • garrote,
  • garrotte,
  • gently,
  • get,
  • gloss over,
  • gun down,
  • hamstring,
  • handcuff,
  • have,
  • hide,
  • hobble,
  • hog-tie,
  • hold back,
  • hold in,
  • humble,
  • humiliate,
  • hush up,
  • hush-hush,
  • ice,
  • imperturbability,
  • implicit,
  • inactivity,
  • inarticulate,
  • inaudible,
  • incapacitate,
  • incinerate,
  • incommunicative,
  • indistinctly,
  • inhibit,
  • interdiction,
  • invalidate,
  • iron curtain,
  • jump on,
  • keep down,
  • keep mum,
  • keep quiet,
  • laconism,
  • lame,
  • lapidate,
  • lightly,
  • limbo,
  • liquidate,
  • lock,
  • lock away,
  • lock in,
  • lock up,
  • lower,
  • maim,
  • manacle,
  • mildly,
  • mitigate,
  • mollify,
  • monopolize,
  • mortify,
  • motionless,
  • motionlessly,
  • muffled,
  • mum,
  • murmur,
  • muted,
  • mutely,
  • muzzle,
  • mystery,
  • negative,
  • neutralize,
  • nevertheless,
  • nirvana,
  • noiseless,
  • noiselessly,
  • nonacceptance,
  • nonplus,
  • nowhere,
  • nullify,
  • oblivion,
  • obscurity,
  • overawe,
  • overcome,
  • overmaster,
  • overpower,
  • overthrow,
  • overturn,
  • overwhelm,
  • pacify,
  • paralyze,
  • parry,
  • passing,
  • patiently,
  • pax,
  • peace,
  • peace of mind,
  • peaceably,
  • peacefully,
  • peacefulness,
  • pipe down,
  • pistol,
  • placate,
  • placid,
  • placidity,
  • placidly,
  • placidness,
  • poleax,
  • polish off,
  • privacy,
  • privateness,
  • prohibition,
  • propitiate,
  • prostrate,
  • put,
  • put away,
  • put out,
  • put to death,
  • quash,
  • quell,
  • quench,
  • quiesce,
  • quiescence,
  • quiescency,
  • quiet down,
  • quieten,
  • quietism,
  • quietly,
  • quietness,
  • quietude,
  • quietus,
  • rebut,
  • rebuttal,
  • refusal,
  • refute,
  • reject,
  • rejection,
  • relieve,
  • repose,
  • repress,
  • reservation,
  • reserve,
  • resistance,
  • respite,
  • rest,
  • rest period,
  • restfulness,
  • restrain,
  • restraint,
  • reticence,
  • reticent,
  • revolt,
  • riddle,
  • rub out,
  • sandbag,
  • satori,
  • secrecy,
  • secretiveness,
  • serene,
  • serenely,
  • serenity,
  • settle,
  • shackle,
  • shame,
  • shoot,
  • shortness,
  • shotgun,
  • shut,
  • shut away,
  • shut down,
  • shut off,
  • shut up,
  • silent,
  • silently,
  • slay,
  • sleek over,
  • sleep,
  • slight,
  • slowly,
  • sluggishly,
  • slumber,
  • smash,
  • smoothly,
  • smother,
  • snub,
  • snuff out,
  • soften,
  • softly,
  • solitariness,
  • solitude,
  • soothe,
  • soundless,
  • soundlessly,
  • soundproof,
  • speechless,
  • speechlessly,
  • sprain,
  • squash,
  • squelch,
  • stammer,
  • stamp out,
  • stanch,
  • static,
  • stifle,
  • stone,
  • stop,
  • strangle,
  • strike dumb,
  • stultify,
  • subdue,
  • subvert,
  • suffocate,
  • sulk,
  • sullenness,
  • suppress,
  • suppression,
  • surmount,
  • tacit,
  • take down,
  • tardily,
  • temper,
  • tenderly,
  • terseness,
  • throttle,
  • tone down,
  • tranquility,
  • tranquilize,
  • tranquillise,
  • tranquillity,
  • tranquillize,
  • tranquilly,
  • trip,
  • truss,
  • uncommunicative,
  • uncommunicativeness,
  • undercurrent,
  • undermine,
  • unfit,
  • unhinge,
  • upset,
  • vaporise,
  • vaporize,
  • veto,
  • waste,
  • waylay,
  • whist,
  • white lie,
  • whitewash,
  • zap,
  • Aphony,
  • Ataraxy,
  • Becripple,
  • Clandestinity,
  • Dysphony,
  • Inarticulateness,
  • Inertly,
  • Jugulate,
  • Misprision,
  • Obmutescence,
  • Occultness,
  • Overmatch,
  • Overset,
  • Pauciloquy,
  • Ratten,
  • Raucity,
  • Redargue,
  • Secretness,
  • Silentness,
  • soft pedal,
  • dead air,
  • cover up,
  • hugger mugger,
  • Absence of Voice,
  • curtains,
  • tonelessness,
  • HIT,
  • FRAG,
  • mutedly,
  • disconfirm,
  • wordlessness,
  • do for,
  • huggermugger,
  • keep under,
  • lay low,
  • sit on,
  • cry down,
  • facelessness,
  • nowheresville,
  • truss up,
  • be silent,
  • be still,
  • keep secret,
  • kill,
  • murder,
  • answer conclusively,
  • argue down,
  • clinch an argument,
  • crack down on,
  • become silent,
  • clamp down on,
  • trample out,
  • cacoepy,
  • fall silent,
  • after that,
  • can it,
  • cut to pieces,
  • dead of night,
  • decrease the volume,
  • hold down,
  • hold one's tongue,
  • hush one's mouth,
  • keep it down,
  • saturninity,
  • say nothing,
  • sit down on,
  • take life,
  • tongue-tie,
  • trample underfoot,
  • trip up,
  • blackout,
  • dead calm,
  • stab to death.

Antonyms for Silence:

• n.

  • absence of sound, speech
    agitation, clamor, communication, noise, talk.
  • attribute
    sound.
  • Other antonyms:
    acclaim, acknowledgment, adoration, babel, blare, bluster, cachet, cacophony, celebrity, character, chatter, clamor, clangor, communication, din, distinction, eloquence, eminence, favor, fluency, garrulousness, glory, greatness, honor, hubbub, idolization, importance, kudos, loquaciousness, loquacity, louden, mark, name, noise, note, notoriety, popularity, position, praise, preeminence, prestige, prominence, racket, rank, rattle, recognition, renown, rep, report, reputation, repute, roar, significance, sound, speaking, standing, stature, talkativeness, talking, tumult, uproar, verboseness, verbosity, volubility, windiness, wordiness, superstardom, unquietness.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    abet, acclaim, acknowledgment, adoration, advance, agitate, agitation, aid, allow, amplify, applause, assist, audio, babble, babel, back, bawling, blare, bluster, broadcast, cachet, cacophony, celebrity, champion, character, chatter, clamor, clamour, clangor, communicate, communication, communicativeness, cultivate, din, disseminate, distinction, eloquence, eminence, encourage, favor, fluency, foment, forward, foster, further, garrulousness, glory, greatness, help, honor, hubbub, idolization, importance, incite, instigate, let go, loquaciousness, loquacity, louden, mark, murmuring, name, noise, note, notoriety, nourish, nurture, occasion, ovation, permit, popularity, position, praise, prattle, preeminence, prestige, prominence, promote, promulgate, prop up, provoke, publicize, racket, rank, rattle, recognition, release, renown, rep, report, reputation, repute, roar, rouse, shouting, significance, sound, speaking, speech, spread, standing, start, stature, stir, support, talk, talkativeness, talking, tumult, uproar, verboseness, verbosity, volubility, whip, whip up, whispering, windiness, wordiness, yelling, Chattiness, Fame, Illustriousness, superstardom, unquietness, megastardom, talkiness, be noisy, make louder, ungag.

• v.

  • change
    louden.
  • make or be quiet
    allow, communicate, encourage, help, let go, permit, release, start, be noisy.