voiceless
English
Adjective
voiceless (not comparable)
- Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.
- 1994, Loreena McKennitt, The Mystic's Dream
- A voiceless song in an ageless light / Sings at the coming dawn / Birds in flight are calling there / Where the heart moves the stones / It's there that my heart is calling / All for the love of you.
- 1994, Loreena McKennitt, The Mystic's Dream
- (figuratively) Without a vote; having no input into a decision.
- (phonetics, of a consonant) Spoken without vibration of the vocal cords; unvoiced, surd. Examples: [t], [s], [f].
Translations
lacking a voice, without vocal sound
(phonetics, of a consonant) spoken without vibration of the vocal cords
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