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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

speakerless en · ADJ

Etymology

From speaker + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without a speaker (narrator).
    • ...this manipulation is motivated, intentional, the result of agency, and this agency cannot be ascribed to speakerless sentences in and of themselves. 1996, Monika Fludernik, Towards a 'natural' Narratology:
    • ...for myth is a speakerless instance of language. It is a system that always speaks itself... 1984, Dudley Andrew, Concepts in film theory:
  2. (not-comparable) Without a speaker (orator).
    • How to Conduct a Speakerless Banquet. 2005, Harold W Donahue, The Toastmaster's Manual:
    • One distraught party chairman from Brazil, Maryland, faced with the prospect of a speakerless rally, prayed, "FOR GOD'S SAKE SEND US INGERSOLL,"... 1978, Allan Peskin, Garfield: a biography:
  3. (not-comparable) Without speakers (audio equipment).
    • a speakerless audio system

Deriveds

speakerlessness