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Tongueless

Tongueless Meaning & Definition
Tongueless Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Tongueless?

[adj] expressed without speech; especially because words would be inappropriate or inadequate; "a mute appeal"; "a silent curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief"; "choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe
[adj] lacking power of speech
[adj] lacking a tongue; "tongueless moccasins"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Tongueless: inarticulate | mute | nonspeaking | unarticulate | unspoken | walk-on | wordless

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Tongueless In Webster's Dictionary

\Tongue"less\, a. 1. Having no tongue. 2. Hence, speechless; mute. ``What tongueless blocks were they! would they not speak?'' --Shak. 3. Unnamed; not spoken of. [Obs.] One good deed dying tongueless. --Shak.

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