speakerless

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English

Etymology

From speaker +‎ -less.

Adjective

speakerless (not comparable)

  1. Without a speaker (narrator).
    • 1984, Dudley Andrew, Concepts in film theory:
      ...for myth is a speakerless instance of language. It is a system that always speaks itself...
    • 1996, Monika Fludernik, Towards a 'natural' Narratology:
      ...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).
    • 1978, Allan Peskin, Garfield: a biography:
      One distraught party chairman from Brazil, Maryland, faced with the prospect of a speakerless rally, prayed, "FOR GOD'S SAKE SEND US INGERSOLL,"...
    • 2005, Harold W Donahue, The Toastmaster's Manual:
      How to Conduct a Speakerless Banquet.
  3. Without speakers (audio equipment).
    a speakerless audio system
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