VOICELESS

aphonic, voiceless

(adjective) being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech

breathed, voiceless

(adjective) uttered without voice; “could hardly hear her breathed plea, ‘Help me’”; “voiceless whispers”

disenfranchised, disfranchised, voiceless, voteless

(adjective) deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote; “labor was voiceless”; “disenfrenchised masses took to the streets”

unvoiced, voiceless, surd, hard

(adjective) produced without vibration of the vocal cords; “unvoiced consonants such as ‘p’ and ‘k’ and ‘s’”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

voiceless (not comparable)

Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.

(figurative) Without a vote; having no input into a decision.

(phonetics, of a consonant) Spoken without vibration of the vocal cords; unvoiced, surd. Examples: [t], [s], [f].

Synonyms

• inaudible

• silent

• unvoiced

Antonyms

• audible

• vocal

• voiced

Source: Wiktionary

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Voice"less, a.

1. Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb. I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword. Byron.

2. (Phon.)

Definition: Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant; surd. Voiceless stop (Phon.), a consonant made with no audible sound except in the transition to or from another sound; a surd mute, as p, t, k.

– Voice"less*ly, adv.

– Voice"less*ness, n.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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