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tongue-tied |
tonguebird |
tongued |
tonguefish |
tongueflower |
tongueless
| tongueless frog
| tonguelet
| tonguelike
| tonguester
| tongueworm
tongueless
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective tongueless has 2 senses
- tongueless(a = adj.all) Array - lacking a tongue; "tongueless moccasins" Antonym: tongued
- tongueless(s = adj.all) mute, unspoken, wordless - expressed without speech; "a mute appeal"; "a silent curse"; "best grief is tongueless"; "the words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief"; "choking exasperation and wordless shame"
CIDE DICTIONARY
tongueless, a.
- Having no tongue. [1913 Webster]
- Hence, speechless; mute. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Unnamed; not spoken of. [1913 Webster]"One good deed dying tongueless." [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
tongueless
Aphony
N aphony, aphonia, dumbness, obmutescence, absence of voice, want of voice, dysphony, cacoepy, silence, raucity, harsh voice &c, unmusical voice, falsetto, childish treble mute, dummy, aphonous, dumb, mute, deafmute, deaf and dumb, mum, tongue-tied, breathless, tongueless, voiceless, speechless, wordless, mute as a fish, mute as a stockfish, mute as a mackerel, silent, muzzled, inarticulate, inaudible, croaking, raucous, hoarse, husky, dry, hollow, sepulchral, hoarse as a raven, rough, with bated breath, with the finger on the lips, sotto voce, in a low tone, in a cracked voice, in a broken voice, vox faucibus haesit.
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