silent picture

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   a movie without a soundtrack

   Synonymssilent moviesilents

   Broadermovie

Questions about silent picture

What does silent picture mean?

silent picture means "a movie without a soundtrack".

What is another word for silent picture?

Close synonyms include silent movie, 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 picture a common word?

silent picture 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.