Search Result for "voiceless": 
Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (4)

1. produced without vibration of the vocal cords;
- Example: "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k'; and `s'";
[syn: unvoiced, voiceless, surd, hard]

2. deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote;
- Example: "labor was voiceless"
- Example: "disenfrenchised masses took to the streets"
[syn: disenfranchised, disfranchised, voiceless, voteless]

3. uttered without voice;
- Example: "could hardly hear her breathed plea, `Help me'"
- Example: "voiceless whispers"
[syn: breathed, voiceless]

4. being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech;
[syn: aphonic, voiceless]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Voiceless \Voice"less\, a.
   1. Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb.
      [1913 Webster]

            I live and die unheard,
            With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a
            sword.                                --Byron.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Phon.) Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant;
      surd.
      [1913 Webster]

   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.
      [1913 Webster] -- Voice"less*ly, adv. --
      Voice"less*ness, n.
      [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

voiceless
    adj 1: produced without vibration of the vocal cords; "unvoiced
           consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'" [syn: unvoiced,
           voiceless, surd, hard] [ant: soft, sonant,
           voiced]
    2: deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to
       vote; "labor was voiceless"; "disenfrenchised masses took to
       the streets" [syn: disenfranchised, disfranchised,
       voiceless, voteless] [ant: enfranchised]
    3: uttered without voice; "could hardly hear her breathed plea,
       `Help me'"; "voiceless whispers" [syn: breathed,
       voiceless]
    4: being without sound through injury or illness and thus
       incapable of all but whispered speech [syn: aphonic,
       voiceless]