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inarticulateness

/in-ahr-tik-yuh-lit/US // ˌɪn ɑrˈtɪk yə lɪt //UK // (ˌɪnɑːˈtɪkjʊlɪt) //

语无伦次,语无伦次的人,无语,无语症

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : lacking the ability to express oneself, especially in clear and effective speech: an inarticulate public speaker.
    • : unable to use articulate speech: inarticulate with rage.
    • : not articulate; not uttered or emitted with expressive or intelligible modulations: His mouth stuffed, he could utter only inarticulate sounds.
    • : not fully expressed or expressible: a voice choked with inarticulate agony.
    • : Anatomy, Zoology. not jointed; having no articulation or joint.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as innoiselessness
as insilence
as inquietness
as insoundlessness
as inspeechlessness

Examples

  • Don Draper is an inarticulate slob compared to Richard Dawson.

  • As I confessed in this somewhat inarticulate post, I beat that drum for a while, partly as a weapon against the religious right.

  • On his debut Meet the Press appearance Sunday, he was horribly inarticulate trying to defend his indefensible 9-9-9 tax plan.

  • Joe Biden got in trouble for calling Barack Obama “articulate,” but inarticulate is fine, right?

  • Mere decades earlier, American Jews had watched, trembling and inarticulate, as European Jews were destroyed.

  • Bernard folded his hands together—almost devoutly—and stood gazing at her with a long, inarticulate murmur of satisfaction.

  • Never had Tom seen his gay and careless cousin in such guise: he was restless, silent, intense and inarticulate.

  • But also it was an inarticulate yearning to find that state of safety where he and she dwelt secure from separation—in the 'sea.'

  • Shrieking inarticulate anathema, he rushed downstairs, the man in the green baize apron following at his heels.

  • Down the long corridors the wind mysteriously whispered, rising in inarticulate moanings and woeful sighs, as of souls in pain.