quietlyadverb
uk/ˈkwaɪət.li/us/ˈkwaɪət.li/B1 without making much noise:
I slipped quietly out of the back door.
He is a quietly spoken, thoughtful man.
in a way that is not obvious to other people because you do not say much:
He is quietly confident that there will be no problems this time.
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- He waited until his daughter was asleep, then tiptoed quietly out of the room.
- The lecturer spoke so quietly that he was scarcely audible at the back of the hall.
- She turned the door knob and quietly opened the door.
- She had some music playing quietly in the background.
- Everyone was working quietly when, all of a sudden, Andrew started shouting and swearing.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Silence & quiet
- breath
- hear
- hush
- hushed
- keep it down idiom
- keep sth down
- muffle
- muffled
- mute
- muted
- noiseless
- pindrop silence
- quiet
- quieten
- radio silence
- silence
- silent
- trail
- trail away/off
- you could have heard a pin drop idiom
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