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Voiceless

//ˈvɔɪsləs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Lacking a voice, without vocal sound. not-comparable

    "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."

  2. 2
    Without a vote; having no input into a decision. figuratively, not-comparable

    "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."

  3. 3
    Spoken without vibration of the vocal cords; unvoiced, surd, breathed. Examples: [t], [s], [f], [m̥], [u̥]. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech wordnet
  2. 2
    uttered without voice wordnet
  3. 3
    deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote wordnet
  4. 4
    produced without vibration of the vocal cords wordnet

Etymology

From voice + -less.

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