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voiceless

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Etymology

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Fromvoice +‎-less.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈvɔɪsləs/
  • Audio(US):(file)
  • Hyphenation:voice‧less

Adjective

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voiceless (notcomparable)

  1. Lacking avoice, withoutvocal sound.
    Synonyms:inaudible,silent,unvoiced
    Antonyms:audible,vocal,voiced
    • 1890, Albert Kimsey Owen,Integral Co-operation at Work ... - Page 105:
      How people, with any pretence to decency or cleanliness, can, for a day, sitvoiceless and patient and see these brutes destroy and befilth everything, public and private, is difficult to believe.
    • 1994,Loreena McKennitt,The Mystic's Dream:
      Avoiceless song in an ageless light /Sings at the coming dawn /Birds in flight are calling there /Where the heart moves the stones /It's there that my heart is calling /All for the love of you.
  2. (figurative) Without avote; having noinput into adecision.
    • 2011, Jan Johnson,Living a Purpose-Full Life:
      I've come to see she is avoiceless person in her world, and so I try to remember to stop and give her my full-faced attention when I see her.
  3. (phonetics, of a consonant or vowel) Spoken withoutvibration of thevocal cords;unvoiced,surd,breathed. Examples: [t], [s], [f], [m̥], [u̥].
    Synonym:unvoiced
    Antonym:voiced

Translations

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lacking a voice, without vocal sound
phonetics, of a consonant: spoken without vibration of the vocal cords

See also

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