voice·less /-ləs/
(a.)無聲的
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.
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voiceless
adj 1: 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]
4: being voiceless through injury or illness and thus incapable
of all but whispered speech [syn: aphonic]