voiceless

Adjective

• being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech

• uttered without voice
  • could hardly hear her breathed plea, `Help me'
    
  • voiceless whispers
    

• deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote
  • labor was voiceless
    
  • disenfrenchised masses took to the streets
    

• produced without vibration of the vocal cords
  • unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  aphonic , breathed , disenfranchised , disfranchised , voteless , unvoiced , surd , hard
• Antonyms: 
  enfranchised , voiced , sonant , soft