voiceless

adj

1. (not-comparable)Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.

   “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.”

   “A voiceless song in an ageless light / Sings at the coming dawn / Birds in flight are calling there / Where the heart moves the stones / It's there that my heart is calling / All for the love of you.”

2. (figuratively, not-comparable)Without a vote; having no input into a decision.

   “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.”

   “I feel like hip-hop / Used to be a voice for the voiceless, you know? / And now it's become, at least in the mainstream, a symbol of / misogyny, gay panic, fiscal irresponsibility, you know? / So I figure / if you can't beat 'em / join 'em”

3. (not-comparable)Spoken without vibration of the vocal cords; unvoiced, surd, breathed. Examples: [t], [s], [f], [m̥], [u̥].