barely audible decrescendo dim distant echoless faint faint-voiced feeble gentle half-heard hush as death hushed inaudible indistinct low mousy murmured noiseless pianissimo piano quiescent quiet scarcely heard silent soft soft-sounding soft-voiced soundless still still as death stilly subdued unarticulated unclear unhearable unpronounced unsounded unuttered unvocalized unvoiced weak weak-voiced whispered whist