Voiceless Definition

voislĭs
adjective
Having no voice; dumb; mute.
Webster's New World
Not speaking; silent.
Webster's New World
Not spoken; not uttered.
A voiceless wish.
Webster's New World
Lacking a musical voice or the ability to sing.
Webster's New World
Articulated without simultaneous vibration of the vocal cords; surd.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:

Origin of Voiceless

  • voice +"Ž -less

    From Wiktionary

Voiceless Sentence Examples

  • In the case of voiceless and voiced pairs, the voiceless consonant appears on the left hand side.

  • The word begins with a rather weak voiceless fricative made with the lips (bilabial ).

  • 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.

  • The phoneme /x / (voiceless) has a positional allophone [G] (voiced ).

  • Also, the end-point of F 1 tends to be lower before a voiced stop than before a voiceless stop.

More Sentences

Related Articles

Find Similar Words

Find similar words to voiceless using the buttons below.

Words Starting With

VVOVOI

Words Ending With

SSSESS

Unscrambles

voiceless

Words Starting With V and Ending With S

Starts With V & Ends With SStarts With VO & Ends With SStarts With V & Ends With SS

Word Length

9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With V9 Letter Words Ending With S