voiceless

  • (a) produced without vibration of the vocal cords
    • unvoiced consonants such as "p" and "k" and "s"
    surd, unvoiced, hard,
  • (a) deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote
    • labor was voiceless
    • disenfrenchised masses took to the streets
    disenfranchised, disfranchised, voteless,
  • (s) uttered without voice
    • could hardly hear her breathed plea, "Help me"
    • voiceless whispers
    breathed,
  • (s) being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech aphonic,

Synonyms

surd unvoiced hard disenfranchised disfranchised voteless breathed aphonic

Antonyms

sonant voiced soft enfranchised

Words of close approximity

voiceless consonant voicelessness