hush

1. 1.

   (poetic) tranquil silence

   “the still of the night”

   Synonymsstillnessstill

   Broadersilence

   poetry

Other forms of hush

plural

hushes·

past tense

hushed·

present participle

hushing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hush

What does hush mean?

hush means "become quiet or still; fall silent". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hush?

hush has 1 syllable: hush. In IPA it is /ˈhʌʃ/.

What is another word for hush?

Close synonyms include quieten, silence, still, shut up, hush up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hush a common word?

hush is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.