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tongueless |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tongueless \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: tongueless adj 1: lacking a tongue; "tongueless moccasins" [ant: {tongued}] 2: lacking power of speech [syn: {mute}] 3: 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}, {unspoken}, {wordless}]
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