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speakerless

adj

Etymology

From speaker + -less.

  1. derived from *sprekô✻ — “speaker”
  2. derived from speca
  3. inherited from speker
  4. suffixed as speakerless — “speaker + less”

Definitions

  1. Without a speaker (narrator).

    • ...for myth is a speakerless instance of language. It is a system that always speaks itself...
    • ...this manipulation is motivated, intentional, the result of agency, and this agency cannot be ascribed to speakerless sentences in and of themselves.

  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,"...
    • How to Conduct a Speakerless Banquet.

  3. Without speakers (audio equipment).

    • a speakerless audio system

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for speakerless. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA