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Uttered, said, or told in a whisper.
Of words: spoken softly; whispered. Of a sigh: gently exhaled.
Uttered in, or of the nature of, a whisper.
attributive. Uttered in a whisper; in Phonetics, uttered without the vocal murmur, ‘breath’ (see breath, n. 8); whisper-like, whisper-proof adjs.
adj. Low-toned, whispered.
spoken in a stage-whisper.