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Webster 1913 Edition


Voiceless

Voice′less

,
Adj.
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
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Voiceless

VOICELESS

, a vois'less. Having no voice or vote.

Definition 2024


voiceless

voiceless

English

Adjective

voiceless (not comparable)

  1. Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.
    • 1994, Loreena McKennitt - The Mystic's Dream
      A voiceless 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. (phonetics, of a consonant) Spoken without vibration of the vocal cords; unvoiced. Examples: [t], [s], [f].

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