wordless
speechless, silent, or mute.
not put into words; unexpressed.
Origin of wordless
1Other words from wordless
- word·less·ly, adverb
- word·less·ness, noun
Words Nearby wordless
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How to use wordless in a sentence
After six days of almost unbelievable emotional swings, I am left with a deep, wordless sadness.
Anne Heche dies after removal from life support | Brody Levesque | August 15, 2022 | Washington BladeIn the movie’s gorgeously shot, wordless opening, a teenage girl escorts her little brother to school by pulling him along on a rough wooden board fitted with wheels.
In Netflix's Tender and Exhilarating Skater Girl, a Shy Indian Teenager Takes Flight on a Board with Wheels | Stephanie Zacharek | June 11, 2021 | TimeHis Underground Railroad lingers on individual images, incorporating wordless, lyrical passages that reveal characters’ interior landscapes.
The law firm claimed that the user posted the wordless one-star review to their Google My Business listing with the intent to cause damage to their reputation or profession and to dissuade potential clients from doing business with them.
We’re all in this together: The partnership between marketing and automation; Monday’s daily brief | Carolyn Lyden | April 19, 2021 | Search Engine Land“We conclude that, as a matter of law, a one-star wordless review posted on Google Review is an expression of opinion protected by the First Amendment,” the Michigan court stated.
One-star ratings on Google are deemed not defamatory and why that’s a problem | Joy Hawkins | April 16, 2021 | Search Engine Land
The image is so familiar as to leave an art reviewer wordless.
This Week’s Hot Reads: Dec. 2, 2012 | Jimmy So, Allison McNearney, Lizzie Crocker | December 3, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThis creative experiment in virtually wordless filmmaking, which we ended up calling Day One, freed us in so many ways.
The Caldecott-honored Red Book by Barbara Lehman has been described as “a wordless mind trip for tots.”
Behind the commonplace sentences, the hidden wordless Play also drew on towards its Curtain.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodThe verbose Marmot, wordless; the listless Slaughter, dominant.
Colonial Born | G. Firth ScottHitherto they had been voiceless, wordless, needing all their breath for their hard-labouring efforts to break down the gates.
North and South | Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellThe ice around Xenie's frozen heart melted at that wordless prayer.
A Dreadful Temptation | Mrs. Alex. McVeigh MillerHe was, said Larry, grim and he rarely spoke; but a close, wordless friendship had developed between them.
Children of the Whirlwind | Leroy Scott
British Dictionary definitions for wordless
/ (ˈwɜːdlɪs) /
inarticulate or silent
music of or relating to vocal music that is not provided with an articulated text: a wordless chorus
Derived forms of wordless
- wordlessly, adverb
- wordlessness, noun
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