Speechless

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Speechless \Speech"less\, a.
     1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech.
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     2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent.
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              Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear.
                                                    --Addison.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Speech"less*ly}, adv. --
        {Speech"less*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  speechless
       adj : unable to speak temporarily; "struck dumb"; "speechless with
             shock" [syn: {dumb}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "speechless":
     anaudic, aphasic, aphonic, breathless, brief, brusque, close,
     close-tongued, closemouthed, concise, curt, dazed, dumb,
     dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, economical of words,
     inarticulate, indisposed to talk, laconic, mum, mute, nonplussed,
     quiet, reserved, shocked, short, silent, snug, sparing of words,
     stricken dumb, taciturn, terse, thunderstruck, tight-lipped,
     tongue-tied, tongueless, uncommunicative, unloquacious,
     untalkative, voiceless, word-bound, wordless