silent movie

1. 1.

   a movie without a soundtrack

   Synonymssilent picturesilents

   Broadermovie

Questions about silent movie

What does silent movie mean?

silent movie means "a movie without a soundtrack".

What is another word for silent movie?

Close synonyms include silent picture, silents. 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 silent movie a common word?

silent movie is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.