ˈsilentish,a.rare. [f. silent a.] Somewhat silent. 1737Ozell Rabelais IV. 175 A small, still, silent (or, if you will, Silentish) Sound.1948E. Blunden Shakespeare to Hardy (1956) xii. 168 Among those who were present..at Dickens's public readings, a ‘silentish young man’.