Adjective: voiceless voys-lus
- Produced without vibration of the vocal cords
"voiceless consonants such as 'p' and 'k' and 's'";
- unvoiced, surd, hard
- Being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech
"The voiceless patient communicated through writing";
- aphonic
- Uttered without voice
"voiceless whispers";
- breathed
- 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