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voiceless |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Voiceless \Voice"less\, a. 1. Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb. I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword. --Byron. 2. (Phon.) Not sounded with voice; as a voiceless consonant; surd. {Voiceless stop} (Phon.), a consonant made with no audible sound except in the transition to or from another sound; a surd mute, as p, t, k. -- {Voice"less*ly}, adv -- {Voice"less*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: voiceless adj 1: (linguistics) of speech sounds [syn: {surd}, {unvoiced}] [ant: {sonant}] 2: not using the voice; "unvoiced thoughts"; "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s' [syn: {unvoiced}] [ant: {voiced}] 3: uttered without voice; "could hardly hear her breathed plea, `Help me'"; "voiceless whispers" [syn: {breathed}]
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