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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
With a most
voiceless
thought, sheathing it as a sword. Byron.
2.
(Phon.)
Not sounded with voice;
as, a
; surd. voiceless
consonantVoiceless 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)
- 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.
- 1994, Loreena McKennitt - The Mystic's Dream
- (phonetics, of a consonant) Spoken without vibration of the vocal cords; unvoiced. Examples: [t], [s], [f].
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
lacking a voice, without vocal sound
(phonetics, of a consonant) spoken without vibration of the vocal cords
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