[
US
/ˈvɔɪsɫəs/
]
[ UK /vˈɔɪsləs/ ]
[ UK /vˈɔɪsləs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
uttered without voice
voiceless whispers
could hardly hear her breathed plea, `Help me' -
produced without vibration of the vocal cords
unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s' -
deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote
disenfrenchised masses took to the streets
labor was voiceless - being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech
How To Use voiceless In A Sentence
- If we posit a voiceless spirant value for Uralic *x by this stage anyway, over in PFP the closest equivalent would be śexćim. Update of my "Diachrony of Pre-IE" document
- The prototypical noun may be (though need not be) quite long, stress will fall early in the word, the stressed vowel will be non-front, and the final consonant (if an obstruent) will be voiceless.
- If there were minimal pairs, we would have to conclude that voiced and voiceless sonorants are separate phonemes.
- No one was quite sure where it had come from, but it had travelled with the K, they were the two voiceless velar Semitic consonants, they went back to the desert, to caph and koph. The Best American Poetry 2010
- labor was voiceless
- Each from his voiceless grave: they have in visioned bowers 2006 » December
- And they claim an unimaginative and logorrheic egomaniac to have been the voice of the voiceless. Times, Sunday Times
- Please listen to the depths of the season, a sweet - bi voiceless, to gurgle out.
- Voiced sounds such as vowels and certain consonants such as b, d, and g require vibration of the vocal folds, while voiceless sounds such as the consonants p, t, and k require the vocal folds to be wide apart.
- Outside the window of my train stands the voiceless France of the banlieue.
