wordless

Speech parts

1. wordless - Adjective

2. wordless - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not using words; not speaking; silent; speechless.

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Examples

Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless. Douglas Adams

Sometimes I see something so moving I know I'm not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave. Don DeLillo

My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped. Doris Lessing

The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The longings after something lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The strivings after better hopes,- These things can never die. Sarah Doudney

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us. Stephen King

We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses. We are those who, through prevarication, skill or luck, never touched bottom. Those who have, and who have seen the face of the Gorgon, did not return, or returned wordless. Primo Levi

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