Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: voiceless
IPA transcription: [v'ɔɪsləs]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: aphonic, voiceless
    Meaning: being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech
  • Synonyms: breathed, voiceless
    Meaning: uttered without voice; "could hardly hear her breathed plea, `Help me'"; "voiceless whispers"
  • Synonyms: disenfranchised, disfranchised, voiceless, voteless
    Meaning: deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote; "labor was voiceless"; "disenfrenchised masses took to the streets"
  • Synonyms: unvoiced, voiceless, surd, hard
    Meaning: produced without vibration of the vocal cords; "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'"
Usage examples
  • Was it you, the voiceless and the dead?
  • Europe's voiceless tremors do not reach her.
  • Voiceless, the soldier sank in his tracks--stone dead.
  • Beside the ship and beneath it (for it swung just under the ball), the immeasurable dome itself shot out and down into the dark like a combination of voiceless cataracts.