'Voiceless' definitions:
Definition of 'voiceless'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
adjective
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]
adjective
Uttered without voice; "could hardly hear her breathed plea, `Help me'"; "voiceless whispers" [syn: breathed, voiceless]
adjective
Being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech [syn: aphonic, voiceless]
Definition of 'Voiceless'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'voiceless'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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