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Antonyms for hushed

Grammar : Adj
Spell : huhsh
Phonetic Transcription : hʌʃ

Definition of hushed

Origin :
  • 1540s, variant of Middle English huisht (late 14c.), probably of imitative origin, with terminal -t lost probably by being mistaken for a past tense suffix. Hush-hush (adj.) is 1916 reduplication. Related: Hushed; hushing. The noun is attested from 1680s. As an interjection meaning "be quiet," attested by c.1600. To hush (one's) mouth "be quiet" is attested from 1878. Hush up "suppress talk for secrecy's sake" is from 1630s. Hush-money is attested from 1709. Hush-puppy "deep-fried ball of cornmeal batter" first attested 1899; as a type of lightweight soft shoe, it is a proprietary name, registered 1961.
  • adj silent
Example sentences :
  • My heart fluttered as I rose to comply with the demand, and the chapel was hushed.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • Annie hushed and reddened and wouldn't tell you what it was.
  • Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
  • Young Andrew Lanning lived in the small, hushed world of his own thoughts.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • Not from the street, for all beside was still; even the roar of London was hushed!
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • His voice, indeed, will be heard a long while after mine is hushed.
  • Extract from : « Footprints on the Sea-Shore (From "Twice Told Tales") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • "He is waking up," said the man, in a hushed, almost reverent voice.
  • Extract from : « The Yates Pride » by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  • From the hush of these places, it is congenial to pass into the hushed resorts of business.
  • Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
  • And now, last of all, Robin took his place, and all was hushed as he shot.
  • Extract from : « The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood » by Howard Pyle
  • It hushed the eloquent, struck down the powerful, abolished the beautiful and good.
  • Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens
  • The affair was hushed up, as three prelates were also compromised in it!
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola

Synonyms for hushed

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