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adjective

Inarticulate adj.

Not uttered with articulation or intelligible distinctness, as speech or words. "Music which is inarticulate poesy."

(Zool.)

(a)

Not jointed or articulated; having no distinct body segments; as, an inarticulate worm.

(b)

Without a hinge; said of an order (Inarticulata or Ecardines) of brachiopods.

Incapable of articulating. (R.) "The poor earl, who is inarticulate with palsy."

Incapable of expressing one's ideas or feelings clearly.

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Etymology of 'Inarticulate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inarticulate" Quotes from Famous Books

... an indistinct murmur of voices for a moment, and then the plash of oars in the water. The distance to be traversed by the boat was not more than three or four hundred feet; I therefore had time only to breathe a hurried and inarticulate word or two of final farewell to Inez, during which I slipped on to her slender finger the only ring I possessed, when a grating sound down by the water's edge told us that the boat had grounded, and we hurried away down ...

— The Rover's Secret - A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba • Harry Collingwood

... splendour of her large black hat and feathers. The new squire's daughter had so far taken them by surprise. Some of them, however, were by now in the second stage of critical observation—none the less critical because furtive and inarticulate. ...

— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... her behavior, as if it had nothing to do with the question, and began to look at the drawings, one after another, with various inarticulate notes of comment imitated from a great French master, and with various foreign phrases, such as "Bon! Bon! Pas mauvais! Joli! Chic!" He seemed to waken from them to a consciousness of the mother, and returned ...

— The Coast of Bohemia • William Dean Howells

... and snarl and forage hungrily; A worthless prairie vagabond is he. Luckless the settler's heifer which astray Falls to his fangs and violence a prey; Useless her blatant calling when his teeth Are fast upon her quivering flank—beneath His fell voracity she falls and dies With inarticulate and piteous cries, Unheard, unheeded in the barren waste, To be devoured with savage greed and haste. Up the horizon once again he prowls And far across its desolation howls; Sneaking and satisfied his lair he gains And leaves her bones to ...

— Flint and Feather • E. Pauline Johnson

... The inarticulate sadness of the place brought a momentary feeling of depression to Lynde, who was not usually given to moods except of the lighter sort. He touched Mary sharply with the spurs and cantered ...

— The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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