Adjective

(er)

Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.

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Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.

* (John Milton)

These changes in the heavens, though slow , produced / Like change on sea and land, sidereal blast.

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Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.

Not hasty; not precipitate; lacking in promptness; acting with deliberation.

* The Bible, Prov. xiv. 29

He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding.

(of a clock or the like) Behind]] in time; indicating a time [[early, earlier than the true time.

Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.

(of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.

Adjective

(en-adj)

Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.

* 1604 , , Othello , act 5, scene 1:

How silent is this town!

* 1825 , , Arthur Murphy, The Works of Samuel Johnson , Talboys and Wheeler, page 52:

What was formerly performed by fleets and armies, by invasions, sieges, and battles, has been of late accomplished by more silent methods.

* 1906 , William Dean Howells and Sidney Dillon Ripley, Certain Delightful English Towns: With Glimpses of the Pleasant Country Between , Harper & Brothers, page 152:

The voice of the auctioneer is slow and low ; after a pause, which seems no silenter than the rest of the transaction, he ceases to repeat the bids, and his fish, in the measure of a bushel or so, have gone for a matter of three shillings.

Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.

* Broome

Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most silent of men.

* Milton

This new-created world, whereof in hell / Fame is not silent .

Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed.

The wind is silent .

(Parnell)

(Sir Walter Raleigh)

(pronunciation) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent.

The ''e'' is silent in ''fable''.

Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.

* Sir Walter Raleigh

Cause silent , virtueless, and dead.

(technology) Without audio capability.

The Magnavox Odyssey was a silent console.

Hidden, unseen.

a silent''' voter; a '''silent partner

Not implying significant modifications which would affect a peptide sequence.

Undiagnosed or undetected because of an absence of symptoms.