voiceless

voiceless
adj
1. mute, speechless, wordless, dumb, Pathol. aphonic, nonverbal, signed, finger-spelled, signaled, gestured, gestural, motioned.
2. silent, mum, still, quiet, not saying a word, with one's mouth shut, Archaic. hush; taciturn, tight-lipped, close-mouthed, uncommunicative, reticent, reserved, shy, timid, tongue-tied.
3. unexpressed, untold, uncommunicated, unuttered, nonverbalized, not put into words; undivulged, undisclosed, unrevealed, unpublished; secret, private, hidden.
4. voteless, without a vote, unfranchised, disfranchised, disenfranchised.

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  • voiceless — index mute, speechless Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • voiceless — (adj.) 1530s, unable to speak, from VOICE (Cf. voice) (n.) + LESS (Cf. less). Meaning having no say in affairs is from 1630s; that of unspoken, unuttered is from 1816. In phonology, unvoiced, from 1867. Related: Voicelessly; voicelessness …   Etymology dictionary

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  • Voiceless — In linguistics, the term voiceless describes the pronunciation of sounds when the larynx does not vibrate. Phonologically, this is a type of phonation, which contrasts with other states of the larynx, but some object that the word phonation… …   Wikipedia

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