Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In zoology, not articulated; not jointed; inarticulate.
  • In Brachiopoda, of or pertaining to the Inarticulata; having the shell hingeless; lyopomatous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not articulated; not jointed or connected by a joint.

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  • adjective Not articulated; not connected by a joint.

Etymologies

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in- +‎ articulated

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Examples

  • So when voters tell pollsters one thing, and their brain shows another, it's not a lie but an inarticulated truth.

    CNN Transcript Feb 5, 2008 2008

  • The if almost dropt inarticulated: but he added – 'I shall make some further enquiries before I venture to say any more.'

    Camilla 2008

  • So when voters tell pollsters one thing, and their brain shows another, it's not a lie but an inarticulated truth.

    CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2008 2008

  • “I am very well, —” cried she, not knowing what she answered, “I am quite well, — pray go, — I am very —” her words died away inarticulated.

    Cecilia 2008

  • Each of those impinge on consciousness in a different manner: the preverbal, often as impulses and inarticulated urges; the verbal, as vocal or subvocal narratives; the transverbal, as luminosities, higher cognitions, and transcendental affects from bliss to cosmic agony.

    Subpersonalities -- An Integral Theoretical Model William Harryman 2007

  • The great tragedian hisses out a positive whisper, made with bated breath, and produced by inarticulated tongue-formed sounds, but yet he is audible through the whole house.

    Barchester Towers 2004

  • Luke, too, had his private methods of reviving the alcoholic, but the old Captain, opening an unfocusing eye from time to time and offering occasional inarticulated words, had defeated them.

    More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949

  • Luke, too, had his private methods of reviving the alcoholic, but the old Captain, opening an unfocusing eye from time to time and offering occasional inarticulated words, had defeated them.

    More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949

  • There can be no doubt that birds have a language which the youngsters soon come to understand, however simple and inarticulated it may be.

    Our Bird Comrades 1896

  • The great tragedian hisses out a positive whisper, made with bated breath, and produced by inarticulated tongue-formed sounds, but yet he is audible through the whole house.

    Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope 1848

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