'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]