Category: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.)

Defn: 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.