| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties | | Division (II) Communication of Ideas | | Section III. Means of Communicating Ideas |
| 2. Spoken Language |
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| 581. Aphonia. |
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| NOUN: | APHONIA or aphony; dumbness &c. adj.; obmutescence [rare]; absence -, want- of voice; dysphonia or dysphony; silence (taciturnity) [See Taciturnity]; raucity; harsh voice [See Stridor], unmusical voice [See Discord]; quaver, quavering; falsetto, “childish treble”; deaf-mutism, deaf-muteness, deaf-dumbness, mute, dummy, deaf-mute.
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| VERB: | SPEAK LOW, speak softly; whisper (faintness) [See Faintness]; keep silence [See Taciturnity].
SILENCE; render -mute, - silent; muzzle, muffle, suppress, smother, gag, strike dumb, dumfound or dumbfound, dumfounder or dumbfounder, mum [obs.], drown the voice, put to silence, stop one’s mouth, cut one short.
stick in the throat.
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| ADJECTIVE: | APHONOUS, nonvocal, aphonic, dumb, mute, deaf and dumb, deafdumb; mum; obmutescent [rare], tonguetied; breathless, tongueless, voiceless, speechless, wordless; mute as a -fish, - stockfish, - mackerel; silent (taciturn) [See Taciturnity]; muzzled; inarticulate, inaudible.
CROAKING, raucous, hoarse, husky, dry, hollow, sepulchral, hoarse as a raven; rough.
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| ADVERB: | WITH BATED BREATH, with the finger on the lips; sotto voce [It.]; in a -low tone, - cracked voice, - broken voice; in broken tones, aside, in an aside.
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| INTERJECTION: | MUM! hush! sh! silence! whist! whisht! [dial.]; chut! (silence) [See Silence]. |
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| QUOTATIONS: | - Vox faucibus hæsit.—Vergil
- There is a homely old adage which runs: ‘Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far’.—Roosevelt
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