voicelessadjective
uk/ˈvɔɪs.ləs/us/ˈvɔɪs.ləs/literary If a group of people is voiceless, it does not have the power or the legal right to express their opinions:
He spent his life fighting for the rights of the voiceless and the underprivileged.
specialized phonetics (of a speech sound) produced without making the vocal cords move
Opposite
voiced
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Powerful people & dictators
- a heavy hitter idiom
- authoritarian
- autocrat
- autocratic
- big beast
- despot
- dictator
- dictatorial
- establishment
- figurehead
- grey eminence
- heavy
- plutocrat
- potentate
- power broker
- puissance
- puissant
- tyrant
- warlord
- éminence grise
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