voiceless

3 definitions found

voiceless - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Voiceless \Voice"less\, a.
     1. Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb.
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              I live and die unheard,
              With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a
              sword.                                --Byron.
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     2. (Phon.) Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant;
        surd.
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     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.
        [1913 Webster] -- Voice"less*ly, adv. --
        Voice"less*ness, n.
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voiceless - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  voiceless
      adj 1: produced without vibration of the vocal cords; "unvoiced
             consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'" [syn: unvoiced,
             voiceless, surd, hard] [ant: soft, sonant,
             voiced]
      2: deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to
         vote; "labor was voiceless"; "disenfrenchised masses took to
         the streets" [syn: disenfranchised, disfranchised,
         voiceless, voteless] [ant: enfranchised]
      3: uttered without voice; "could hardly hear her breathed plea,
         `Help me'"; "voiceless whispers" [syn: breathed,
         voiceless]
      4: being without sound through injury or illness and thus
         incapable of all but whispered speech [syn: aphonic,
         voiceless]

voiceless - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  116 Moby Thesaurus words for "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,
     wordless