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voiceless Definition

voice·less (vo̵is′lis)

adjective

  1. having no voice; dumb; mute
  2. not speaking; silent
  3. not spoken; not uttered a voiceless wish
  4. lacking a musical voice or the ability to sing
  5. having no voice, or vote; lacking suffrage
  6. Phonet. articulated without simultaneous vibration of the vocal cords; surd: said of certain consonants, as (p), (s), and (c̸h)

voiceless Related Forms
voice′·lessly adverb voice′·less·ness noun
voiceless Synonyms

voiceless

modif.

dumb, mute, speechless, wordless, silent; see also dumb 1, mute 1. See syn. study at dumb.

voiceless Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • fricative: The word begins with a rather weak voiceless fricative made with the lips ( bilabial ).
  • consonant: In the case of voiceless and voiced pairs, the voiceless consonant appears on the left hand side.
  • stop: Also, the end-point of F 1 tends to be lower before a voiced stop than before a voiceless stop.
  • sound: The voiceless sounds ' p, t, k, h ' are color coded green.
  • plosive: After the voiceless alveolar plosive comes a mid back rounded vowel, and after that a rather long uvular nasal.
  • people: He had been working as a Business Analyst for four years and now wants to leave the money-spinning business to advocate for voiceless people.

Used with adjective complement

  • remain: One thing is for sure if you remain voiceless -- nothing will change for the better and bureaucratic monsters will carry on regardless!
voiceless Quotes

Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

—Weil, Simone