as in mute
unable to speak
the sudden rumblings of an earthquake rendered people inarticulate with fear
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Recent Examples of inarticulate
In its least manageable moments, early motherhood must feel like an unpaid job with no breaks, an inarticulate boss and working conditions designed to strip all that’s civil from one’s sense of self.
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Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
An inarticulate protagonist—a protagonist who isn’t much given to verbally analyzing his own experience—seemed to provide an opportunity to approach things another way, indirectly or suggestively.
—Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2024
At the climax of this bizarre collection of movements S… would let out a harsh, inarticulate cry.
—Caitlyn Murphy, Hazlitt, 13 Nov. 2024
From this, and similarly strong but inarticulate reactions, Haidt concluded that the students had arrived at their judgments impulsively.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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Laura, who lost her daughter Cathy months prior, is already looking after a young foster child named Ollie (Jonah Wren Phillips), a strange, selectively mute boy who has an insatiable appetite and a blood feud with the family cat.—
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Roku’s advancements in remote technology over the last 15 years are visually subtle, and include a volume rocker and mute button on the right edge and a pinhole microphone near the top for voice control.—
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In helicopter video taken by Air Maui Helicopter Tours in Lahaina and posted online the people aboard are largely speechless.—
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Because his work, as is often the case, leaves us almost speechless.—
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“Inarticulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inarticulate. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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