voiceless

Meaning

1. (not-comparable) Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.
2. (figuratively, not-comparable) Without a vote; having no input into a decision.
3. (not-comparable) Spoken without vibration of the vocal cords; unvoiced, surd, breathed. Examples: [t], [s], [f], [m̥], [u̥].

Opposite of

audible, vocal, voiced

Synonyms

unvoiced

silent

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surd

speechless

mute

🔇

aphonic

hard

disfranchised

voteless

breathed

disenfranchised

noiseless

nonresonant

dumb

mum

quiet

still

tacit

toneless

tongueless

uninflected

unreflected

inartculate

aphasic

Translations

sordo

muto

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άφωνος

stimmlos

muet

sin voz

aphone

dilsiz

🔇

surdo

sprakeloos

afònic

mudo

🔇

sourd

sessiz

🔇

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈvɔɪsləs/

Etymology

From voice + -less.