Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having no tongue.
  • adjective Lacking the faculty of speech; mute.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having no tongue; aglossal.
  • Speechless; voiceless; silent.
  • Unnamed; not spoken of.

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

  • adjective Having no tongue.
  • adjective Hence, speechless; mute.
  • adjective obsolete Unnamed; not spoken of.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having no tongue
  • adjective Lacking speech; mute
  • adjective Making no sound; silent, speechless
  • adjective Expressed without speech; wordless, unspoken

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective expressed without speech
  • adjective lacking a tongue

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Examples

  • She accepted that he was the better writer and would only construct her own stories when he sank into the sleep of tongueless witches.

    Automatic Typewriter Brianne Baxtali 2011

  • For his mouth being large, tongueless, and continually open in the water, multitudes of leeches become entangled in his teeth: these, when the crocodile emerges from the river and opens his mouth, are removed by a friendly waterbird, which is allowed to insert its beak without any risk to itself.

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • For his mouth being large, tongueless, and continually open in the water, multitudes of leeches become entangled in his teeth: these, when the crocodile emerges from the river and opens his mouth, are removed by a friendly waterbird, which is allowed to insert its beak without any risk to itself.

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • The Surinam toad (Pipa pipa), which occurs in South America, is tongueless and is so flat that it appears to have been run over.

    Amphibian 2008

  • There is eloquence in the tongueless wind and a melody in the flowing of brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them which by their inconceivable relation to something within the soul awaken the spirits to a dance of breathless rapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes like the enthusiasm of patriotic success or the voice of one beloved singing to you alone.

    'A nation or a world': Patriotism in Shelley 2006

  • The huge animal approached the platform, shaking his large wrinkled head, which he raised and sunk, as if impatient, and curling upwards his trunk from time to time, as if to show the gulf of his tongueless mouth.

    The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

  • Two little girls whose united ages would hardly be four and twenty, had been open-eyed and tongueless at the foot of the platform.

    Fr. McNabb Speaks - Lenin's Pitch 2008

  • Lupus nodded, then shrugged and pointed to his tongueless mouth, as if to say: I couldn't taste it anyway.

    Excerpt: The Enemies of Jupiter by Caroline Lawrence 2005

  • And from the writings of Robert Ingersoll, a popular late-nineteenth-century thinker, he memorized: “I would rather have been a poor French peasant, and worn wooden shoes, and gone down to the tongueless silence of the dreamless dust than to have been that imperial impersonation of force and murder that covered Europe with blood and tears known as Napoleon Bonaparte.”

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • And from the writings of Robert Ingersoll, a popular late-nineteenth-century thinker, he memorized: “I would rather have been a poor French peasant, and worn wooden shoes, and gone down to the tongueless silence of the dreamless dust than to have been that imperial impersonation of force and murder that covered Europe with blood and tears known as Napoleon Bonaparte.”

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

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