voiceless

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Lacking a voice, without vocal sound. not-comparable
    — How people, with any pretence to decency or cleanliness, can, for a day, sit voiceless and patient and see these brutes destroy and befilth everything, public and private, is difficult to believe.
  2. Without a vote; having no input into a decision. figuratively,not-comparable
    — I've come to see she is a voiceless person in her world, and so I try to remember to stop and give her my full-faced attention when I see her.
  3. Spoken without vibration of the vocal cords; unvoiced, surd, breathed. Examples: [t], [s], [f], [m̥], [u̥]. not-comparable

词汇关系

衍生词
prevoiceless pre-voiceless voicelessly voicelessness
相关词
speechless

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs
Proto-Italic *wōks
Latin vōcem
Anglo-Norman voizbor.
Middle English voys
English voice
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English voiceless
From voice + -less.
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