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Adjective: voiceless  voys-lus
  1. Produced without vibration of the vocal cords
    "voiceless consonants such as 'p' and 'k' and 's'";
    - unvoiced, surd, hard
     
  2. Being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech
    "The voiceless patient communicated through writing";
    - aphonic
     
  3. Uttered without voice
    "voiceless whispers";
    - breathed
     
  4. Deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote
    "labour was voiceless";
    - disenfranchised, disfranchised, voteless

See also: inarticulate, inaudible, unarticulate, unhearable, whispered

Encyclopedia: Voiceless