Voiceless

/ˈvɔɪsləs/

Synonyms for "voiceless" (134 found)

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Closest matches (27)

Adjective(3 words)

accented alveolar anaudic aphasic aphonic apical apico-alveolar apico-dental articulated assimilated back bad bare barytone bereft bilabial breathless broad cacuminal central

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cerebral checked close consonant

Strong matches (40)

consonantal continuant dental denuded deprived destitute dissimilated dorsal dumb dumbfounded dumbstricken dumbstruck empty flat front glide glossal glottal guttural hard

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heavy high inarticulate innocent intonated invalid labial labiodental labiovelar lateral lax light lingual liquid low mid monophthongal

Adjective(3 words)

disenfranchised disfranchised hard

Related words (67)

Determiner(2 words)

more mutethe powerless

Adjective(6 words)

mouthless muted silenced speechless surd voteless

mum mute muted narrow nasal nasalizednull and voidocclusive open oxytone palatal palatalized pharyngeal pharyngealized phonemic phonetic phonic pitch pitched posttonic

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Noun(1 words)

string mute

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

4 entries

marginalizationphoneme featuresocial conditionsound property

More specific

7 entries

muted audiencesilenced groupsilent minorityvoiceless alveolar fricativevoiceless bilabial plosivevoiceless glottal stopvoiceless velar stop

Collocations

5 entries

voiceless consonantvoiceless consonantsvoiceless fricativevoiceless phonemevoiceless stop

Inflections

2 entries

more voicelessmost voiceless

Derivations

2 entries

voicelessly voicelessness

similar

5 entries

inarticulate inaudible unarticulate unhearable whispered

Sample sentences

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Voiceless screaming was interestingly represented through music notation by Alfred Schnittke: "silence fortissimo".

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It seems appropriate to apply these rules to the voiceless consonants.

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In that language, voiceless consonants tend to be voiced intervocalically.

Source: tatoeba (6037959)

An alveolar ejective has voiceless phonation, meaning it is produced without vocal cord vibration.

Source: tatoeba (9013216)

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