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English

Adjective

voiceless (no comparative or superlative forms)

  1. Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.
  2. *1994, w:Loreena McKennitt|Loreena McKennitt - The Mystic's Dream
  3. :A voiceless song in an ageless light
  4. :Sings at the coming dawn
  5. :Birds in flight are calling there
  6. :Where the heart moves the stones
  7. :It's there that my heart is calling
  8. :All for the love of you.
  9. In the Context of Spoken without vibration of the vocal cords; unvoiced. Examples: [t], [s], [f].


Antonyms


Translations

  • Hungarian: ,
  • Spanish:
  • Hungarian:

See also


Category:Talking

ta:voiceless te:voiceless vi:voiceless tr:voiceless zh:voiceless

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Voiceless \Voice"less\, a.
1. Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb.
[1913 Webster]

I live and die unheard,
With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a
sword. --Byron.
[1913 Webster]

2. (Phon.) Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant;
surd.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet voiceless
adj 1: of speech sounds [syn: surd, unvoiced] [ant: sonant]
2: not using the voice; "unvoiced thoughts"; "unvoiced
consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'" [syn: unvoiced]
[ant: voiced]
3: uttered without voice; "could hardly hear her breathed plea,
`Help me'"; "voiceless whispers" [syn: breathed]
4: being voiceless through injury or illness and thus incapable
of all but whispered speech [syn: aphonic]
Moby Dictionary
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 ,
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