voiceless

From voice +‎ -less.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔɪsləs/

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• Hyphenation: voice‧less

voiceless (not comparable)

1. Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.

   Synonyms: inaudible, silent, unvoiced

   Antonyms: audible, vocal, voiced

   • 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. (figurative) Without a vote; having no input into a decision.
3. (phonetics, of a consonant or vowel) Spoken without vibration of the vocal cords; unvoiced, surd, breathed. Examples: [t], [s], [f], [m̥], [u̥].

   Synonym: unvoiced

   Antonym: voiced

• speechless