voiceless

voiceless
Synonyms and related words:
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, wordless

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  • Voiceless — Voice less, a. 1. 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. Byron. [1913 Webster] 2. (Phon.) Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • voiceless — [vois′lis] adj. 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… …   English World dictionary

  • voiceless — index mute, speechless Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • voiceless — (adj.) 1530s, unable to speak, from VOICE (Cf. voice) (n.) + LESS (Cf. 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 …   Etymology dictionary

  • voiceless — ► ADJECTIVE 1) lacking a voice; speechless. 2) Phonetics (of a speech sound) uttered without resonance of the vocal cords …   English terms dictionary

  • Voiceless — In linguistics, the term voiceless describes the pronunciation of sounds when the larynx does not vibrate. Phonologically, this is a type of phonation, which contrasts with other states of the larynx, but some object that the word phonation… …   Wikipedia

  • voiceless — [[t]vɔ͟ɪsləs[/t]] 1) ADJ A voiceless speech sound is one that is produced without vibration of the vocal cords. [TECHNICAL] ...the voiceless th . 2) ADJ Someone who is voiceless is unable to speak. [WRITTEN] His voiceless lips formed the words… …   English dictionary

  • voiceless — voice|less [ˈvɔısləs] adj 1.) unable to get your opinions or concerns noticed by people in power ▪ The vast majority of our people feel ignored and voiceless. 2.) technical voiceless sounds are made without using the ↑vocal cords. For example,… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • voiceless — voicelessly, adv. voicelessness, n. /voys lis/, adj. 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 …   Universalium

  • voiceless — adjective technical voiceless sounds are made without using the vocal cords . For example, and /k/ are voiceless consonants …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • voiceless — adjective Date: 1535 1. having no voice ; mute 2. not voiced ; surd < a voiceless consonant > • voicelessly adverb • voicelessness noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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