Inarticulate

Definition: Inarticulate

Inarticulate

Adjective

1. Without or deprived of the use of speech or words; "inarticulate beasts"; "remained stupidly inarticulate and saying something noncommital"; "inarticulate with rage"; "an inarticulate cry".

Date "inarticulate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Etymology: Inarticulate \In`ar*tic"u*late\, adjective. [Latin expression inarticulatus; prefix in- not articulatus articulate.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Inarticulate

Synonym: unarticulate (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: articulate (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Aphony	Adjective: aphonous, dumb, mute; deafmute, deaf and dumb; mum; tongue-tied; breathless, tongueless, voiceless, speechless, wordless; mute as a fish, mute as a stockfish, mute as a mackerel; silent; (taciturn); muzzled; inarticulate, inaudible.
Stammering	Adjective: stammering; Verb: inarticulate, guttural, nasal; tremulous; affected.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Inarticulate

English words defined with "inarticulate": cry, crying ♦ dumbly ♦ groaning, grunting ♦ inarticulately, Inarticulateness, ineloquently ♦ moaning ♦ shouting ♦ tears ♦ unarticulate ♦ weeping ♦ yell, yelling. (references)

Specialty definitions using "inarticulate": LAUGHTER. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Christian Life and Christian Hope: Raids on the Inarticulate (reference) Inarticulate Longings: The Ladies' Home Journal, Gender, and the Promises of Consumer Culture (reference) Middle Ordovician phosphatic inarticulate brachiopods from Vèastergèotland and Dalarna, Sweden (reference) T.S. Eliot and the raid on the inarticulate (reference) The christology of the inarticulate : an inquiry into the Filipino understanding of Jesus the Christ (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Inarticulate Nature Boy (reference) Inarticulate Speech of the Heart (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	She broke continually into shouts of a wild, inarticulate, and sometimes piercing music.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The sister attempted to speak, but could scarcely stammer out a few inarticulate sounds.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	The verses passed from his lips and the inarticulate cries and the unspoken brutal words rushed forth from his brain to force a passage.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	LAUGHTER, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable. Liability to attacks of laughter is one of the characteristics distinguishing man from the animals -- these being not only inaccessible to the provocation of his example, but impregnable to the microbes having original jurisdiction in bestowal of the disease. Whether laughter could be imparted to animals by inoculation from the human patient is a question that has not been answered by experimentation. Dr. Meir Witchell holds that the infection character of laughter is due to the instantaneous fermentation of sputa diffused in a spray. From this peculiarity he names the disorder Convulsio spargens.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Inarticulate" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inarticulate" is used about 84 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	84	36,109

Expression using "inarticulate": inarticulate with rage. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "inarticulate": near-inarticulate.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "inarticulate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i paqartë (abstract, dark, dim, doubtful, dubious, dusky, evasive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, muddy, nebulous, obscure, out of focus, recondite, shadowy, uncertain, unclear, undistinguishable, undistinguished, unknowable, unreadable, vague), i panjyëtuar, pa artikulacione, memec (dumb, mute, speechless, voiceless). (various references)

Arabic		‏مجمجم غير ملفوظ بوضوح, ‏لامفصلي, ‏عييي عاجز عن التعبير, ‏عاجز عن الافصاح. (various references)

Bulgarian		ням (dumb, implicit, mute, silent, speechless, still, voiceless), несъчленен, неясно изговорен, неясен (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, bleary, confused, crepuscular, dark, doubtful, dreamy, dusk, fuzzy, hazy, illegible, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, intangible, involved, inward, loose, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, obscure, pale, recondite, shadowy, soft, transcendental, ulterior, unclear, undecided, unformed, vague, vapory, vapoury, wan, woolly), нечленоразделен, неизразим (incommunicable, ineffable, nameless, speechless, unspeakable, unutterable). (various references)

Chinese		表达清晰. (various references)

Czech		tìžkopádný (clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, dull, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy, heavy going, heavy-handed, lumpish, unwieldy), neschopný slova (tongue tied), neartikulovaný, nìmý (blank, dumb, mute, speechless, voiceless). (various references)

Farsi		ناشمرده (Untold), وابسته به بی مفصلان , غیرملفوظ, درست ادانشده , بی مفصل , بی بند. (various references)

French		indistinct (indefinite, indistinct, indistinctive), incapable de s'exprimer, mal prononcé. (various references)

German		unartikuliert (indistinct, indistinctly, unarticulated, unclear), undeutlich (blurred, dimly, hazy, illegible, inarticulately, indefinite, indefinitely, indistinct, indistinctly, indistinguishable, muddled, mumblingly, obscure, obscurely, slurred, unarticulate, uncertain, unclear, undistinguishable, undistinguished, unemphatic, unexplicit, vague). (various references)

Greek		άναρθροσ. (various references)

Hebrew		לא ברור (indistinct, unclear), על�' (stammerer, stammering, stutterer), חסר כח �"בע�". (various references)

Hungarian		tagolatlan, artikulálatlan. (various references)

Indonesian		tidak jelas (cryptic, vague). (various references)

Italian		indistinto (dim, fuzzy, hazy, indistinct, nebulous, shadowy, undistinguishable, unemphatic, unexplicit, vague), inarticolato, che si esprime con difficolt� . (various references)

Manx		neuoltagh (limbless), moandid (bluntness, dullness, hesitancy, impediment of speech, inarticulateness, slur), fastagh (cautious in speech, grave, modest, mum, noncommittal, pensive, quiet, secretive, taciturn, tight-lipped, uncommunicative). (various references)

Pig Latin		inarticulateay

Portuguese		inarticulado (mum, thick, tight lipped), pouco claro (abstruse, cramped, hidebound, inexpressible, mum, nebulous, obscure, tight lipped), mal pronunciado (mum, tight lipped), abraçar (bosom, clasp, cling, cuddle, embosom, embrace, enclave, enfold, enlarge, fold, hug, inlaid, neck, nestle, squeeze, wind). (various references)

Romanian		incoerent (disconnected, disjointed, incoherent, incoherently, rambling, rigmarole), prost articulat, neclar (blind, cloudy, confused, dark, darkly, difficult, diffuse, dim, dull, feeble, foggy, gloomily, hazy, indistinct, inexplicit, lax, muddy, obscurely, vague, vaguely), mut (dumb, mute, mutely, sharp, silent, silently, speechless, voiceless). (various references)

Russian		нечленораздельный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nemušti (mute), neartikulisan, bez zglobova. (various references)

Spanish		inarticulado, hablado con dificultad, expresado con dificultad. (various references)

Swedish		oartikulerad. (various references)

Turkish		konuşma özürlü, konuşamaz, eklemsiz, dilsiz (dumb, mute, speechless, voiceless), derdini anlatamayan, anlaşılmaz (bottomless, clear as mud, complicated, deep, delphic, elusive, elusory, fathomless, impenetrable, inapprehensible, incomprehensible, inconceivable, inexplicable, inscrutable, intangible, obscure, occult, opaque, oracular, perplexed, puzzling, recondite, sphinxlike, unaccountable, uncanny, unintelligible, vague, weird). (various references)

Ukranian		нечленороздільний, мовчазний (broody, dumb, mum, mute, obmutescent, quiescent, reticent, silent, soundless, stilly, tacit, taciturn, tight lipped, uncommunicative, wordless). (various references)

Vietnamese		không rõ r� ng không nói rõ r� ng được, không có đốt, ú ớ không nói được. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	confusa, confusi, confusum, confusus, infans, infante, infantem, infantes, infantia, infantibus, infantium, infantum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "inarticulate": inarticulately, inarticulateness, inarticulatenesses, inarticulates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Inarticulate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inarticulat, inarticulated, inasticulate, intarticulate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "inarticulate" (pronounced i'nÄrti"kyulut)
8	-t i" k y u l u t	particulate.
5	-y u l u t	amulet.
4	-u l u t	consulate, desolate, inviolate, ultraviolet, Violet.
3	-l u t	anklet, appellate, autopilot, ballot, billet, booklet, boomlet, bracelet, branchlet, bullet, Charlotte, chocolate, collet, copilot, droplet, emasculate, eyelet, Gantlet, gauntlet, giblet, goblet, gullet, hamlet, harlot, helot, immaculate, lancelet, leaflet, mallet, Merlot, Millet, mullet, omelet, palate, palette, pallet, pamphlet, pellet, piglet, pilot, platelet, prelate, quintuplet, scarlet, sextuplet, skillet, starlet, tablet, template, templet, toilet, triplet, wallet, zealot.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-i-l-n-r-t-t-u"
	-2 letters: articulate, retinacula, tentacular.
	-3 letters: antiulcer, intricate, laciniate, lateritic, reluctant, triticale.
	-4 letters: acauline, actiniae, alterant, analcite, anticult, anuretic, attainer, auntlier, canulate, carinate, clarinet, craniate, cultrate, iatrical, inertial, interact, intercut, intitule, irenical, lacunate, laitance, literati, nautical, neuritic, reactant, reattain, reticula, retinula, rutilant, taciturn, tailrace, tantalic, tarletan, tenacula, tenurial, tincture, tractile, truncate, tunicate, uintaite, uralitic, uranitic, urticant, urticate.
	-5 letters: acarine, actinal, actinia, actuate, airline, alunite, antiair, anticar, arcuate, arietta, article, auricle, canulae, carinae, carinal, carline, cateran, cattail, cattier, cauline, centaur, central, ceratin, certain, ciliate, citrate, citrine, cittern, clatter, clutter, cranial, creatin, crinite, cuittle, curtail, curtain, curtate, cutline, inciter, inertia, intitle, intreat, inutile, iterant, lactate, lactean, lacunae, lacunar, latrine, lattice, linecut, lintier, lucarne, lunatic, nattier, natural, nautili, neritic, neutral, nictate, nitrate, nitrile, nitrite, nittier, nuclear, nuttier, ranulae, ratline, rattail, recital, reliant, retinal, ruinate, tacrine, tactile, tactual, tantric, taunter, taurine, teacart, tertial, tertian, tetanal, tetanic, titania, titanic, titular, trenail, tuatera, tunicae, tunicle, tutelar, unclear, uncrate, uralite, uranite, urinate, utricle.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-i-l-n-r-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: inarticulates.
	+2 letters: inarticulately, rearticulating, recapitulating, recapitulation.
	+3 letters: connaturalities, recapitulations.
	+4 letters: atrioventricular, inarticulateness, intraventricular, overarticulating, rectangularities.
	+5 letters: australopithecine, supernaturalistic.
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