Antonyms for the phrase "were silent" can be numerous. Some of the most common options include talking, speaking, chatting, communicating, discussing, and conversing. Other antonyms can be whispering, murmuring, and mumbling, as they all indicate the use of low volume of voice to convey a message. The terms arguing, debating, and quarrelling can also be antonyms as they indicate the exchange of opposing viewpoints. Furthermore, noisy, loud, and boisterous can be antonyms as they describe the opposite of silence. Therefore, depending on the context, various antonyms can be used for "were silent" to convey the opposite meaning effectively.

What are the antonyms for Were silent?

• v.

  • sulk
  • be happy
  ,
  • compliment
  ,
  • grin
  ,
  • praise
  ,
  • smile
  .

Famous quotes with Were silent

• It was a time of transition, which few recognized, and glutting national satisfaction. Students and scholars were silent.

  Roger Kahn
• When Heracles was quite a young man and was nearly of the age at which you yourselves are now, while he was deliberating which of the two roads he should take, the one leading through toils to virtue, or the easiest, two women approached him, and these were Virtue and Vice. Now at once, although they were silent, the difference between them was evident from their appearance. For the one had been decked out for beauty through the art of toiletry, and was overflowing with voluptuousness, and she was leading a whole swarm of pleasures in her train; now these things she displayed, and promising still more than these she tried to draw Heracles to her. But the other was withered and squalid, and had an intense look, and spoke quite differently; for she promised nothing dissolute or pleasant, but countless sweating toils and labours and dangers through every land and sea. But the prize to be won by these was to become a god, as the narrative of Prodicus expressed it; and it was this second woman that Heracles in the end followed.

  Basil of Caesarea
• Then they were silent:—words are little aid To Love, whose deepest vows are ever made By the heart's beat alone. Oh, silence is Love's own peculiar eloquence of bliss!

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
• I was overjoyed when I read Yevtushenko's "Babi Yar"; the poem astounded me. It astounded thousands of people…People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
• I did not wish to protest against war. My object was to remember. I wanted people to find in my poems the truth of what it had been like to be an American infantry soldier. Now I see I was writing a memorial of those years, for the me I had known, who were silent.

  Louis Simpson

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