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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VOICELESS, a vois'less. Having no voice or vote.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: produced without vibration of the vocal cords; "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'" [syn: unvoiced, voiceless, surd, hard] [ant: soft, sonant, voiced]
2: deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote; "labor was voiceless"; "disenfrenchised masses took to the streets" [syn: disenfranchised, disfranchised, voiceless, voteless] [ant: enfranchised]
3: uttered without voice; "could hardly hear her breathed plea, `Help me'"; "voiceless whispers" [syn: breathed, voiceless]
4: being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech [syn: aphonic, voiceless]

Merriam Webster's

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

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 dumb, mute, speechless. 2 Phonet. uttered without vibration of the vocal cords (e.g. f, k, p, s, t). Derivatives: voicelessly adv. voicelessness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A voiceless speech sound is one that is produced without vibration of the vocal cords. (TECHNICAL) ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

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