Wordless

3 definitions found

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

  Wordless \Word"less\, a.
     Not using words; not speaking; silent; speechless. --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  wordless
       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 [syn: {mute}, {tongueless}, {unspoken}]

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

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "wordless":
     anaudic, aphasic, aphonic, breathless, brief, brusque, close,
     close-lipped, close-tongued, closemouthed, concise, curt, dumb,
     dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, economical of words,
     implicit, implied, inarticulate, indisposed to talk, inferred,
     laconic, mum, mute, quiet, reserved, reticent, short, silent, snug,
     sparing of words, speechless, stricken dumb, tacit, taciturn,
     terse, tight-lipped, tongue-tied, tongueless, uncommunicative,
     undeclared, understood, unexpressed, unloquacious, unmentioned,
     unproclaimed, unpronounced, unpublished, unrecorded, unsaid,
     unspoken, unsung, untalkative, untalked-of, untold, unuttered,
     unvoiced, unwritten, voiceless, word-bound