Voiceless

Quick meaning: Voiceless is an adjective meaning Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.

Meaning

Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) Without a vote; having no input into a decision.
2. (phonetics, of a consonant or vowel) Spoken without vibration of the vocal cords; unvoiced, surd, breathed. Examples: [t], [s], [f], [m̥], [u̥].

Example Sentences

I've come to see she is a voiceless person in her world, and so I try to remember to stop and give her my full-faced attention when I see her.

How people, with any pretence to decency or cleanliness, can, for a day, sit voiceless and patient and see these brutes destroy and befilth everything, public and private, is difficult to believe.

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.

I feel like hip-hop / Used to be a voice for the voiceless, you know? / And now it's become, at least in the mainstream, a symbol of / misogyny, gay panic, fiscal irresponsibility, you know? / So I figure / if you can't beat 'em / join 'em

Synonyms for voiceless

Depending on context, synonyms include inaudible, silent, unvoiced, surd, unsung, breathed.

Antonyms for voiceless

Common opposites include audible, vocal, voiced, sonant.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unsung, inaudible, unvoiced, unhearable, breathed, surd.

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