Thesaurus: voiceless

Related headwords

Definitions

1. a. Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb.
2. a. Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant; surd.
3. adj. produced without vibration of the vocal cords
4. adj. deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote
5. adj. uttered without voice
6. adj. being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech
7. 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.) 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.
8. Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant; surd.Voiceless stop (Phon.), a consonant made with no audible sound exceptin the transition to or from another sound; a surd mute, as p, t, k.-- Voice"less*ly, adv.-- Voice"less*ness, n.
9. j:100 a produced without vibration of the vocal cords a deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote s uttered without voice s being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech