voiced
/vɔɪst
/adjective
1 [in combination] Speaking or singing with a voice of a specified kind: a squeaky-voiced comedian a passionate deep-voiced singer...
- When the gravelly voiced detective opened the door to the little country house that served as his office, she was led into a study that could have been lifted from pulp fiction.
- And lo, the smooth voiced TV announcer came upon them and the glories of many fine possessions shown round about them.
- This is a great return to form from the croaky voiced one, with loads of featured artists.
2(Of an opinion or attitude) expressed in a particular way: a commonly voiced concern amongst doctors strongly voiced sentiments...
- Another frequently voiced objection is that many words sound the same but are represented by a different character.
- Moves to prosecute him proved unsuccessful, despite the publicly voiced offence his actions had given to such prominent liberals as John Stuart Mill and T H Huxley.
- The episode throws into sharp relief one of the most widely voiced criticisms of the performing arts in Queensland - that for all the talk of the state capital coming of age, a sometimes venal, smalltown mentality persists behind the scenes.
3 Phonetics (Of a speech sound) uttered with resonance of the vocal cords (e.g. b, d, g): a voiced velar fricative...
- The letters f and s each have voiceless and voiced values, the letters v and z not normally being used.
- In English, w normally represents a voiced bilabial semi-vowel, produced by rounding and then opening the lips before a full vowel, whose value may be affected.
- There is a voiced velar fricative in many Scottish English words (loch, pibroch) and in traditional Scots (bricht, micht, nicht = bright, might, night).