Crossword clues for voiceless
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Voiceless \Voice"less\, a.
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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. -
(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. [1913 Webster] -- Voice"less*ly, adv. -- Voice"less*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "unable to speak," from voice (n.) + -less. Meaning "having no say in affairs" is from 1630s; that of "unspoken, unuttered" is from 1816. In phonology, "unvoiced," from 1867. Related: Voicelessly; voicelessness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Lacking a voice, without vocal sound. 2 (context phonetics of a consonant English) Spoken without vibration of the vocal cords; unvoiced. Examples: [t], [s], [f].
WordNet
not using the voice; "unvoiced thoughts"; "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'" [syn: unvoiced] [ant: voiced]
uttered without voice; "could hardly hear her breathed plea, `Help me'"; "voiceless whispers" [syn: breathed]
being voiceless through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech [syn: aphonic]
Wikipedia
Voiceless is an independent, non-profit animal protection charity based in Sydney, Australia, whose work is focused on raising awareness of animals suffering in factory farming and the kangaroo industry in Australia. According to their mission statement, Voiceless's vision is for a world in which animals are treated with respect and compassion.
Voiceless was founded by father-daughter team Brian Sherman AM and Ondine Sherman in 2004 with the goal of making animal protection the next great social justice movement.
Voiceless keeps a mainstream focus by taking a measured and factual approach to animal protection, choosing to focus on building the movement by offering grants and prizes, creating influential networks, promoting informed debate, and conducting research exposing legalised cruelty.
Patrons: Brian Sherman AM, J. M. Coetzee, Dame Jane Goodall DBE, The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG
Ambassadors: Hugo Weaving, Abbie Cornish, Emily Barclay
Council Members: Bob Carr, Dr Charlie Teo, Dr Ken Henry, Dr Simon Longstaff, Richard Flanagan, Holly Throsby, Akira Isogawa
The Voiceless series is a series of musical drama novels by a Wattpad author under the name of HaveYouSeenThisGirL. The original, unedited story was first posted on the online literary site Wattpad. The story was split into two books by PSICOM Publishing Inc.
On May 2014, in a segment at Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho, it was announced that the series will be getting its own film adaptation. Viva Films acquired the title and currently has no confirmed released date. This is the fourth movie adaptation to be announced of a story first published in Wattpad after Diary ng Panget, She's Dating the Gangster, and Talk Back and You're Dead.
Voiceless may refer to:
- Voicelessness, linguistic sounds produced without vibrating the larynx
- Muteness, the property of being unable to produce a voice
- Aphasia, the condition of being unable to speak
- A lack of power (social and political)
- Voiceless (animal welfare group), the animal protection institute based in Sydney, Australia
Usage examples of "voiceless".
If we become victims, we first become choiceless and then become voiceless.
Cash, and Darl after their time was up--hearing the dark land talking the voiceless speech.
His eyes closed, his will girding itself to a supreme effort, his senses exalted to a state of pleasing numbness, he called upon Angele to come to him, his voiceless cry penetrating far out into that sea of faint, ephemeral light that floated tideless over the little valley beneath him.
She turned back towards the town, and as they walked in the double silence of their own hushed tongues and the songless and voiceless world, the fingers of the little ones closed tightly upon her own.
The Vegan, of course, was voiceless, and the guards stood about patiently, silent as ever, rock-still except for the slow, almost unceasing, wave of the black, blunt spines.
McGee called into the photophone until his throat was dry, but the only answer was the eternal voiceless whisper of the stars.
Now note the opposition of the consonants -- a rich nasal against a voiceless semivowel, a voiced stop against a voiceless.
The cold, pounding wrath of stormy seawater was in Its voiceless communication, and the dark purple danger of the stiller depths, the outrage of an ancient surging elemental force now prostituted by men.
XXII And when too restlessly the mighty throng Of fancies woke within his teeming mind, All silently they formed in glorious song, And floated off unheard, and undivined, Perchance not lost -- with many a voiceless prayer They reached the sky, and found some record there.
His chest shook with voiceless sobs, and Kipp remembered how glad he had been that Catlin had not been there to see Four Bears cursing the whites.
The voiceless presence that filled the hull landscape, earth and air, looked at us through them eyes, half mournful, prophetic, true and calm, they wuz a lookin' through all the past, through all the future.
I was banjaxed, out for luncheon, voiceless and mindless, for -the first time in my life caught without a wisecrack behind which to take refuge.
I who loved you, Spoon River, And craved your love, Withered before your eyes, Spoon River-- Thirsting, thirsting, Voiceless from chasteness of soul to ask you for love, You who knew and saw me perish before you, Like this geranium which someone has planted over me, And left to die.
All of you are henceforth dead to the world of humans, cursed for all time to walk as animals, voiceless, loveless, and joyless, for the joy and the love of my life you have stolen from me.
And before the day was done Carter saw that the steersman could have no other goal than the Basalt Pillars of the West, beyond which simple folk say splendid Cathuria lies, but which wise dreamers well know are the gates of a monstrous cataract wherein the oceans of earth's dreamland drop wholly to abysmal nothingness and shoot through the empty spaces toward other worlds and other stars and the awful voids outside the ordered universe where the daemon sultan Azathoth gnaws hungrily in chaos amid pounding and piping and the hellish dancing of the Other Gods, blind, voiceless, tenebrous, and mindless, with their soul and messenger Nyarlathotep.