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speakerless

speakerless adjective: without a speaker (narrator).

Adjective

speakerless (not comparable)

  1. Without a speaker (narrator).
    • ...for myth is a speakerless instance of language. It is a system that always speaks itself...1984, Dudley Andrew, Concepts in film theory
    • ...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
  2. Without a speaker (orator).
    • 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
    • How to Conduct a Speakerless Banquet.2005, Harold W Donahue, The Toastmaster's Manual
  3. Without speakers (audio equipment).
    • a speakerless audio system

Origin of speakerless

From speaker + -less.

Words formed from speakerless

Questions about speakerless

What does speakerless mean?
Speakerless means without a speaker (narrator).
What part of speech is speakerless?
Speakerless is an adjective.

Words near speakerless in the dictionary

  1. speaker/strobes
  2. speakeress
  3. speakeresses
  4. speakerine
  5. speakerines
  6. speakerless
  7. speakerlessness
  8. speakerlike
  9. speakerly
  10. speakerphone
  11. speakerphones

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