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voiceless


adjective

  1. having no voice; mute.
  2. uttering no words; silent.
  3. having an unmusical voice.
  4. unspoken; unuttered: voiceless sympathy.
  5. having no vote or right of choice.
  6. Phonetics. (of a speech sound)
    1. without voice; unvoiced; surd; aphonic (contrasted with voiced): “p,” “f,” and “s” are voiceless.
    2. uttered without phonation.

adjective

  1. without a voice; mute
  2. not articulatedvoiceless misery
  3. lacking a musical voice
  4. silent
  5. without the power or right to express an opinion
  6. phonetics articulated without accompanying vibration of the vocal cordsin English (p) is a voiceless consonant
adj.

1530s, “unable to speak,” from voice (n.) + -less. Meaning “having no say in affairs” is from 1630s; that of “unspoken, unuttered” is from 1816. In phonology, “unvoiced,” from 1867. Related: Voicelessly; voicelessness.

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