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Inarticulate synonyms

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reticent
Inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself.
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  1. Inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself.
  2. (Usage Problem) Reluctant; unwilling.
  3. Silent or uncommunicative; disinclined to speak readily, often, specif., habitually so
wordless
Without words; speechless
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  1. Without words; speechless
  2. Inarticulate; silent:
  3. Not expressed in words; unspoken:
mute
(Law) Declining to enter a plea to a criminal charge:
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  1. (Law) Declining to enter a plea to a criminal charge:
  2. Expressed without speech; unspoken:
  3. (--- Offensive) Unable to speak.
tongue-tied
Speechless or inarticulate from amazement, embarrassment, etc.
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  1. Speechless or inarticulate from amazement, embarrassment, etc.
  2. Affected with tongue-tie.
  3. Speechless or confused in expression, as from shyness, embarrassment, or astonishment.
unintelligible
Not intelligible; that cannot be understood; incomprehensible
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  1. Not intelligible; that cannot be understood; incomprehensible
  2. Not intelligible; unable to be understood
  3. Difficult or impossible to understand or comprehend; incomprehensible:
incoherent
Lacking cohesion, connection, or harmony; not coherent:
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  1. Lacking cohesion, connection, or harmony; not coherent:
  2. Unable to think or express one's thoughts in a clear or orderly manner:
  3. Characterized by incoherent speech, thought, etc.
garbled
(of a message etc) difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled
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  1. (of a message etc) difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled
vague
Not sharp, certain, or precise in thought, feeling, or expression
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  1. Not sharp, certain, or precise in thought, feeling, or expression
  2. Not clearly, precisely, or definitely expressed or stated
  3. Indistinctly felt, perceived, understood, or recalled; hazy:
aphonic
(Phonet.) Not pronounced
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  1. (Phonet.) Not pronounced
  2. Of, relating to, or exhibiting aphonia; unable to speak.
  3. Voiceless
dumb
Conspicuously unintelligent; stupid:
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  1. Conspicuously unintelligent; stupid:
  2. Unintentional; haphazard:
  3. Temporarily speechless, as with shock or fear:
mute
Unable to speak
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  1. Unable to speak
  2. (Law) Declining to enter a plea to a criminal charge:
  3. Expressed without speech; unspoken:
speechless
Not speaking; not knowing what to say; silent, especially due to surprise, amazement, etc.
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  1. Not speaking; not knowing what to say; silent, especially due to surprise, amazement, etc.
  2. Temporarily unable to speak; silent, as from shock
  3. Unexpressed or inexpressible in words:
voiceless
Lacking a musical voice or the ability to sing
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  1. Lacking a musical voice or the ability to sing
  2. Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.
  3. Having no voice; dumb; mute
dumb
Not expressed or articulated in sounds or words:
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  1. Not expressed or articulated in sounds or words:
  2. Unwilling to talk; silent
  3. Temporarily speechless, as with shock or fear:
mum
Silent; not speaking
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  1. Silent; not speaking
  2. Not verbalizing; silent.
mute
(Linguistics) Not pronounced; silent, as the e in the word house.
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  1. (Linguistics) Not pronounced; silent, as the e in the word house.
  2. (Law) Declining to enter a plea to a criminal charge:
  3. Not speaking; voluntarily silent
silent
Not speaking or refraining from speech:
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  1. Not speaking or refraining from speech:
  2. Not voiced or expressed; unspoken:
  3. Inactive; quiescent:
speechless
Not speaking; not knowing what to say; silent, especially due to surprise, amazement, etc.
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  1. Not speaking; not knowing what to say; silent, especially due to surprise, amazement, etc.
  2. Temporarily unable to speak; silent, as from shock
  3. Refraining from speech; silent.
voiceless
Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.
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  1. Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.
  2. Having no voice; dumb; mute
  3. Not speaking; silent
wordless
Not expressed in words; unspoken:
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  1. Not expressed in words; unspoken:
  2. Without words; speechless
  3. Inarticulate; silent:
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  • - More or less circular, cone-shaped, inarticulate Brachiopoda.

  • The inarticulate R2D2 expresses himself mainly in beeps and boops (which fortunately Threepio understands), but you can usually tell what his main message is by 'tone of voice'.

  • Simple vocal tics include stuttering, stammering, abnormal emphasis of part of a word or phrase, and inarticulate noises such as throat clearing, grunts, and high-pitched sounds.

  • inarticulate noises would Jack come out with before he said what was on his mind?

  • Mel from Suffolk Not all teenagers are completely inarticulate.

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