soundless

adj

1. Without sound.

   “a soundless tableau”

   “Cassius. […] for your words, they rob the Hybla bees, And leave them honeyless. Antony. Not stingless too. Brutus. O yes, and soundless too; For you have stol’n their buzzing, Antony, And very wisely threat before you sting.”

   “The Psalmist observes, That the Heavens declare the glory of God: And indeed, they celebrate his Praises, though with a soundless Voice, yet with so loud a one […] to our intellectual Ears, that he scruples not to affirm, that There is no Speech nor Language where their voice is not heard […]”

   “The whole building, with its dark windows and soundless avenues, had an air strikingly forlorn and solitary.”

   “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hang oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country […]”

2. Not capable of being sounded or fathomed.

   “the soundless deep”

   “Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat, Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride;”

   “1614, Christopher Brooke, The Ghost of Richard the Third, London: L. Lisle, “The Legend of Richard the Third,” Nor Wits, nor Chronicles could ere containe, The Hell-deepe Reaches, of my soundlesse Braine.”

   “This heart’s geography’s map, this limitless small continent, this soundless sea;”