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voiceless
CIDE DICTIONARY
voiceless, a.
- 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." [1913 Webster] - Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant; surd. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
voiceless, adj.
1 dumb, mute, speechless.
2 Phonet. uttered without vibration of the vocal cords (e.g. f, k, p, s, t).
1 dumb, mute, speechless.
2 Phonet. uttered without vibration of the vocal cords (e.g. f, k, p, s, t).
Derivative
voicelessly adv. voicelessness n.
THESAURUS
voiceless
accented, alveolar, anaudic, aphasic, aphonic, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, bad, bare, barytone, bereft, bilabial, breathless, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dental, denuded, deprived, destitute, dissimilated, dorsal, dumb, dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, empty, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, inarticulate, innocent, intonated, invalid, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, mum, mute, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, null and void, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, retroflex, rounded, scant, semivowel, short, shy, soft, sonant, speechless, stopped, stressed, stricken dumb, strong, surd, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tongue-tied, tongueless, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide, wordlessROGET THESAURUS
voiceless
Aphony
N aphony, aphonia, dumbness, obmutescence, absence of voice, want of voice, dysphony, cacoepy, silence, raucity, harsh voice &c, unmusical voice, falsetto, childish treble mute, dummy, aphonous, dumb, mute, deafmute, deaf and dumb, mum, tongue-tied, breathless, tongueless, voiceless, speechless, wordless, mute as a fish, mute as a stockfish, mute as a mackerel, silent, muzzled, inarticulate, inaudible, croaking, raucous, hoarse, husky, dry, hollow, sepulchral, hoarse as a raven, rough, with bated breath, with the finger on the lips, sotto voce, in a low tone, in a cracked voice, in a broken voice, vox faucibus haesit.For further exploring for "voiceless" in Webster Dictionary Online