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"less*ly, adv. -- Voice"less*ness, n.

 

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