aphonic, voiceless
(adjective) being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech
breathed, voiceless
(adjective) uttered without voice; ācould hardly hear her breathed plea, āHelp meāā; āvoiceless whispersā
disenfranchised, disfranchised, voiceless, voteless
(adjective) deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote; ālabor was voicelessā; ādisenfrenchised masses took to the streetsā
unvoiced, voiceless, surd, hard
(adjective) produced without vibration of the vocal cords; āunvoiced consonants such as āpā and ākā and āsāā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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].
• inaudible
• silent
• unvoiced
• audible
• vocal
• voiced
Source: Wiktionary
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
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; ātheoretical scienceā
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
