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Webster 1913 Edition


Silentious

Si-len′tious

,
Adj.
[L.
silentiosus
: cf. F.
silencieux
.]
Habitually silent; taciturn; reticent.
[R.]

Definition 2024


silentious

silentious

English

Adjective

silentious (comparative more silentious, superlative most silentious)

  1. Habitually taciturn, prone to silence
    The boy was so silentious I barely heard a peep out of him in the six months he was with us.

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