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adjective

Speechless adj.

Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech.

Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. "Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear."

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Etymology of 'Speechless'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Speechless" Quotes from Famous Books

... a most atrocious cast. But the water boiled, and he hooked two good-sized trout at once. Quite speechless with envy and admiration I watched him play them and eventually beach them. They were cutthroat trout, silvery-sided and marked with the red slash along their gills that gave them their name. I did not catch any while wading, but from the bank I spied one, and dropping a fly in front of his nose, ...

— Tales of lonely trails • Zane Grey

... one another in speechless horror, and Patty rose. "Well, good-by, my children, and, above all things, don't worry. I'm glad if I've been able to cheer you up a little, for so much depends on not being nervous. Don't believe any of ...

— When Patty Went to College • Jean Webster

... full of sorrow, now took counsel together, and came to Merlin for his help to learn the king's will before he died, for he was by this time speechless. "Sirs, there is no remedy," said Merlin, "and God's will must be done; but be ye all to-morrow before him, for God will make ...

— The Legends Of King Arthur And His Knights • James Knowles

... the course of nature, thirty or forty years more. As the two patriarchs sat face to face, half hidden with their streaming white hair, Ottigny and his credulous soldiers looked from one to the other, lost in speechless admiration. ...

— Pioneers Of France In The New World • Francis Parkman, Jr.

... stood speechless before that astonishing, yet inevitable, third; that miracle of incorporate self-expression, whereby a man and woman behold their hidden spirits that have so passionately clung together across the gateless barrier of individual being, ...

— The Great Amulet • Maud Diver

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