tongueless
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9.9
- adjective
- /ˈtʌŋləs/
- Literature
:
sin lengua
- A conversation between friends can sometimes feel tongueless when no one knows what to say.
Examples
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And I repent of wishing the one sitting next to him tongueless for half an hour, for much the same reason.
Fiction book (1999) -
The tongueless vigil and all the pain.
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"What could he do—a tongueless, paralyzed man?"
Fiction book (1996) -
In her grief, she felt a tongueless despair that left her unable to express her sorrow.
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His expression was tongueless, unable to convey the depth of his emotions at that moment.
Synonyms
81
3.7
Understood without words
56
4.8
Not said aloud but people understand it
20
5.8
Not spoken out loud
20
4.1
Not using speech, often shown by a look or gesture
9
4.1
A look or action that shows feeling without words
1
6.0
Not using spoken words, for example a silent actor or someone using sign language
Thought but not spoken aloud
Antonyms
Compounds
A frog with no tongue that lives mainly in water in Africa, Panama, and northern South America
How Silent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tongueless comes from tongue, which can mean 'speech' or 'language', as in mother tongue, and the ending -less meaning 'without'. So something tongueless is 'without' spoken words or simply silent.