voiceless : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: voiceless	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for voiceless
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
voiceless adj produced without vibration of the vocal cords; "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'" Synonym(s): unvoiced, voiceless, surd, hard Antonym(s): soft, sonant, voiced deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote; "labor was voiceless"; "disenfrenchised masses took to the streets" Synonym(s): disenfranchised, disfranchised, voiceless, voteless Antonym(s): enfranchised uttered without voice; "could hardly hear her breathed plea, `Help me'"; "voiceless whispers" Synonym(s): breathed, voiceless being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech Synonym(s): aphonic, voiceless
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Voiceless \Voice"less\, a. 1. Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb. I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword. --Byron. 2. (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"lessly}, adv. -- {Voice"lessness}, n.