voiceless
voiceless is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.(Phon.) Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant; surd. Voiceless stop (Phon.), a consonant made with no audible sound except in the transition to or from another sound; a surd mute, as p, t, k. -- Voice"less*ly, adv. -- Voice"less*ness, n.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absence
- and
- aphonia
- aphonous
- aphony
- bated
- breath
- breathless
- broken
- childish
- cracked
- cut
- deaf
- drown
- dry
- dumb
- dumbness
- dumfounder
- dummy
- dysphony
- faintness
- falsetto
- finger
- fish
- gag
- harsh
- hoarse
- hollow
- husky
- inarticulate
- inaudible
- keep
- low
- mackerel
- mouth
- muffle
- mum
- mute
- muzzle
- obmutescence
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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