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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.) 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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
voiceless
adj 1: (linguistics) of speech sounds [syn: {surd}, {unvoiced}]
[ant: {sonant}]
2: not using the voice; "unvoiced thoughts"; "unvoiced
consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s' [syn: {unvoiced}]
[ant: {voiced}]
3: uttered without voice; "could hardly hear her breathed plea,
`Help me'"; "voiceless whispers" [syn: {breathed}]
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