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Definition: Tongueless |
TonguelessAdjective1. Lacking a tongue; "tongueless moccasins". 2. Lacking power of speech. 3. Expressed without speech; especially because words would be inappropriate or inadequate; "a mute appeal"; "a silent curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief"; "choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tongueless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
Synonyms: TonguelessSynonyms: mute (adj), unspoken (adj), wordless (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: tongued (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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tongueless |
| English words defined with "tongueless": Aglossal ♦ family Pipidae ♦ Pipidae. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Tongueless Man (1912) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | What, tongueless blocks were they? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Tongueless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tongueless" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "tongueless": tongueless frog. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "tongueless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | χωρίσ γλώσσα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | senza lingua. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onguelesstay безъязыкий. (various references) sin lengua. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "tongueless" (pronounced 'Tongue"less'): Actless, Ageless, Aidless, Aimless, Airless, Aisless, Approachless, Armless, Artless, Assistless, Avoidless, Awless, Awnless, Backless, Badgeless, Barkless, Baseless, Bashless, Bateless, Beamless, Beardless, Birthless, Bitless, Blameless, Blissless, Bloodless, Bloomless, Blotless, Blushless, Boastless, Boneless, Bookless, Bootless, Boteless, Boundless, Bournless, Bowless, Bractless, Bragless, Brainless, Branchless, Breadless, Breadthless, Breathless, Breezeless, Bribeless, Bridgeless, Briefless, Brimless, Browless. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-l-n-o-s-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: eugenols, noteless, selenous, setulose, toluenes, toneless, tuneless, unsteels. | |
-3 letters: egoless, eluents, engluts, ensouls, eugenol, gentles, genuses, glutens, gunless, gunsels, gustoes, gutless, longest, lotuses, lounges, lungees, neguses, nestles, netless, outseen, outsees, solutes, teloses, telsons, toeless, toluene, tongues, tonuses, tousles, tugless, unsteel. | |
-4 letters: egests, eluent, elutes, englut, ensoul, ensues, geests, genets, gentes, gentle, gestes, gleets. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-l-n-o-s-s-t-u" | |
+3 letters: forgetfulness. | |
+4 letters: gelatinousness. | |
+5 letters: forgetfulnesses, litigiousnesses, thoughtlessness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 6E 67 75 65 6C 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- --- -. --. ..- . .-.. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101111 01101110 01100111 01110101 01100101 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o n g u e l e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 006E 0067 0075 0065 006C 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54818073877178718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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