adjective
- pronounced without vibration of the vocal cords
Usage: linguistics
Examples
- The final consonant in ‘cats’ is devoiced.
- In some dialects, voiced consonants become devoiced at the end of words.
- The linguist noted that the ‘d’ sound was devoiced in that position.
- Devoiced consonants are common in whispered speech.
- The phonetic transcription showed several devoiced segments.
- Students learned to identify devoiced sounds in their pronunciation class.