voiceless
adjective
- having no voice; dumb; mute
- not speaking; silent
- not spoken; not uttered: a voiceless wish
- lacking a musical voice or the ability to sing
- having no voice, or vote; lacking suffrage
- Phonet. articulated without simultaneous vibration of the vocal cords; surd: said of certain consonants, as (p), (s), and (c̸h)
See voiceless in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(voisˈlĭs)
adjective- Having no voice; mute.
- Linguistics Uttered without vibration of the vocal cords, as the sounds (t) and (p).
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