voiceless

English

Etymology

voice +‎ -less

Adjective

voiceless (not comparable)

1. Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.
   • 1994, Loreena McKennitt - The Mystic's Dream

     A voiceless song in an ageless light / Sings at the coming dawn / Birds in flight are calling there / Where the heart moves the stones / It's there that my heart is calling / All for the love of you.

2. (phonetics, of a consonant) Spoken without vibration of the vocal cords; unvoiced. Examples: [t], [s], [f].

Antonyms

• voiced

Translations

lacking a voice, without vocal sound

• Finnish: mykkä (fi), äänetön (fi)
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: hangtalan (hu), néma (hu)
• Lithuanian: bebalsis (lt)

• Polish: niemy m, bezgłośny m
• Russian: безголосый (ru) (bezgolósyj), безгласный (ru) (bezglásnyj), немой (ru) (nemój)
• Scots: voiceless
• Spanish: mudo (es) m

(phonetics, of a consonant) spoken without vibration of the vocal cords

• Arabic: صامت (ar) (Saamit)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無聲 (cmn), 无声 (cmn) (wúshēng)

• Czech: neznělý (cs)
• Danish: ustemt (da)
• Finnish: soinniton (fi)
• French: sourd (fr), aphone (fr)
• Galician: xordo (gl)
• German: stimmlos (de)
• Hungarian: zöngétlen (hu)
• Irish: neamhghlórach (ga)

• Japanese: 無声 (ja) (musei)
• Polish: bezdźwięczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: surdo (pt) m
• Russian: глухой (ru) (gluxój)
• Scots: voiceless
• Scottish Gaelic: neo-ghuthach (gd)
• Spanish: sordo (es)
• Swedish: tonlös (sv)

See also

• speechless