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voiceless
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective voiceless has 4 senses
- voiceless(a = adj.all) hard, surd, unvoiced - produced without vibration of the vocal cords; "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'" Derived form noun voicelessness2
- voiceless(a = adj.all) disenfranchised, disfranchised, voteless - deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote; "labor was voiceless"; "disenfrenchised masses took to the streets" Derived form noun voicelessness3
- voiceless(s = adj.all) breathed - uttered without voice; "could hardly hear her breathed plea, `Help me'"; "voiceless whispers"
- voiceless(s = adj.all) aphonic - being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech; Array Derived form noun voicelessness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
voiceless, a.
- Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb. [1913 Webster]"I live and die unheard,
With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword." [1913 Webster] - Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant; surd. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
voiceless, adj.
1 dumb, mute, speechless.
2 Phonet. uttered without vibration of the vocal cords (e.g. f, k, p, s, t).
1 dumb, mute, speechless.
2 Phonet. uttered without vibration of the vocal cords (e.g. f, k, p, s, t).
Derivative
voicelessly adv. voicelessness n.
THESAURUS
voiceless
accented, alveolar, anaudic, aphasic, aphonic, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, bad, bare, barytone, bereft, bilabial, breathless, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dental, denuded, deprived, destitute, dissimilated, dorsal, dumb, dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, empty, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, inarticulate, innocent, intonated, invalid, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, mum, mute, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, null and void, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, retroflex, rounded, scant, semivowel, short, shy, soft, sonant, speechless, stopped, stressed, stricken dumb, strong, surd, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tongue-tied, tongueless, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide, wordlessROGET THESAURUS
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Aphony
N aphony, aphonia, dumbness, obmutescence, absence of voice, want of voice, dysphony, cacoepy, silence, raucity, harsh voice &c, unmusical voice, falsetto, childish treble mute, dummy, aphonous, dumb, mute, deafmute, deaf and dumb, mum, tongue-tied, breathless, tongueless, voiceless, speechless, wordless, mute as a fish, mute as a stockfish, mute as a mackerel, silent, muzzled, inarticulate, inaudible, croaking, raucous, hoarse, husky, dry, hollow, sepulchral, hoarse as a raven, rough, with bated breath, with the finger on the lips, sotto voce, in a low tone, in a cracked voice, in a broken voice, vox faucibus haesit.
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