adjective
- Produced without vibration of the vocal cords.
- usage: "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'"
- Deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote.
- usage: "labor was voiceless"; "disenfrenchised masses took to the streets"
- synonyms: disenfranchised, disfranchised, voteless
- Uttered without voice.
- usage: "could hardly hear her breathed plea, `Help me'"; "voiceless whispers"
- synonyms: breathed
- Being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech.
- synonyms: aphonic
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