ADJECTIVE
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not made explicit
the unexpressed terms of the agreement
some kind of unspoken agreement
his action is clear but his reason remains unstated
things left unsaid -
produced without vibration of the vocal cords
unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'
How To Use unvoiced In A Sentence
- The pattern of the main voiced and unvoiced agendas reveals systematic differences between how patients present in consultations with how they present in research interviews.
- That the Carver might kill again was both the fear and (though this thought was guiltily unvoiced ) the hope. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
- The answer to that unvoiced question was both understandable and reasonable, but it was also a secret that Bridget refused to divulge to anyone.
- Actually, Peking comes from the Cantonese name "Bak [mandarin 'bei'] Ging [mandarin 'jing']" and the B in cantonese is unvoiced, making it sound like a P. Languagehat.com: BEIZHING.
- The poem is ‘a Renaissance jewel, beautiful but (compared to Hamlet) troublingly unvoiced, relatively toneless, unchangeably small.’
- In contrast, a root that shows a devoiced stop but which confuses the allophone with the homophonous phoneme should instead properly pair with another unvoiced stop. PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring?
- Most of the time, we can differentiate between a “b” and a “p” sound over the phone, even though the audio cues that make the difference between these voiced on unvoiced plosive consonants live in the higher frequencies that are lost over phone circuits. 2009 December « Steve Wildstrom on Tech
- She executes her role as the lone family friend with a perfect unvoiced presence - her understanding of their isolation is touching.
- An unvoiced sob now hovered behind her words, making her sound intolerably vulnerable to this new enemy, but there was nothing she could do about it.
- I forced myself to become airy and unconcerned at his stunned fuming and unvoiced questions.
