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say it: VOY-sluhs
voiceless is an adjective meaning "produced without vibration of the vocal cords". It is pronounced /ˈvɔɪsləs/ — VOY-sluhs. It carries 4 recorded senses.
deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote
“labor was voiceless”
“disenfrenchised masses took to the streets”
being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for voiceless come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.