Meanings
- not comparablehuman sciencesSpoken without vibration of the vocal chords.
Both EE and SSBE feature glottal stops – unvoiced Ts – but in EE it can happen in the middle of words – eg “wa’er for “water” – whereas in SSBE it happens only at the end of words.
2023 October 31, “Language barrier: why even Harry has stopped speaking the king’s English”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2024Synonyms: voiceless
- not comparablecomputingThat does not contain voice.
The unvoiced signal is smaller energy than voiced signal and, so, this section is applied the smaller threshold.
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Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSpoken without vibration of the vocal chords.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveproduced without vibration of the vocal cords
adjectivenot made explicit
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishvoiced
- Englishunvoiced
Translations
Finnish äänetön, sanaton
- äänetönnot spoken or expressed
- sanatonnot spoken or expressed
- mykkänot spoken or expressed
Icelandic ósagður, ótjáður
- ósagðurnot spoken or expressed
- ótjáðurnot spoken or expressed
Polish niewypowiedziany, bezdźwięczny
- niewypowiedzianynot spoken or expressed
- bezdźwięcznylinguistics: voiceless
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with unvoiced
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unvoiced. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unvoiced
“unvoiced.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unvoiced. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unvoiced,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unvoiced.
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