Vocal
Vocal adjective - Expressed or communicated by voice.
Wordless
Wordless adjective - Deliberately refraining from speech.
Usage example: he stood wordless before his accusers
Both words in one sentence
- Promos for various cop shows, especially Law & Order, use a wordless Arabic-style women's vocal when this week's episode is going to feature Muslims in some way.
Source: One-Woman Wail - On top of the main vocal part, singers Michael Gira and Devendra Banhart recorded over twenty more backing tracks, most of them wordless improvisations on the main melody, all of which appear on the final recording.
Source: Self-Backing Vocalist - Woman, Jim Morrison takes a wordless vocal solo where he imitates a harmonica: "whoooh, wha-wha-whaoo-ooh...".
Source: Scatting aka: Singing Simlish
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Wordless and Vocal. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/vocal/wordless
Vocal & Wordless. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/vocal/wordless>.
Wordless or Vocal. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/vocal/wordless.
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