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In some senses, voiceless is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.
voiceless
/ˈvɔɪsləs/
adj 3
Collocations
5ADJ.
alveolar, ejective, patient
VERB + VOICELESS
rules, sit, voice, voiced
VOICELESS + NOUN
consonants, dutch, person, phonation, plosives, song
PREP.
in, in
ADV.
interestingly
Definitions
adj
1
Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.
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.
2
Without a vote; having no input into a decision.
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.
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
3
Spoken without vibration of the vocal cords; unvoiced, surd, breathed. Examples: [t], [s], [f], [m̥], [u̥].
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — being without sound through injury or illness and thus incap
adjective — uttered without voice
adjective — deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right t
- disenfranchised
- disfranchised
- voteless
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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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.
Wiktionary02
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.
Wiktionary03
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.
Wiktionary04
Voiceless screaming was interestingly represented through music notation by Alfred Schnittke: "silence fortissimo".
Tatoeba · #27826205
It seems appropriate to apply these rules to the voiceless consonants.
Tatoeba · #32279906
In that language, voiceless consonants tend to be voiced intervocalically.
Tatoeba · #6037959Usage Notes
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