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Adjective: voiceless  voys-lus
  1. Produced without vibration of the vocal cords
    "voiceless consonants such as 'p' and 'k' and 's'"
    - unvoiced, surd, hard
     
  2. Deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote
    "labour was voiceless"
    - disenfranchised, disfranchised, voteless
     
  3. Uttered without voice
    "voiceless whispers"
    - breathed
     
  4. Being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech
    - aphonic

See also: inarticulate, inaudible, unarticulate, unhearable, voicelessness, whispered

Encyclopedia: Voiceless