wordless

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Conveyed without the use of words; unspoken or unsaid.
    — On any given Friday night at the Claremont Colleges, between 15 and 20 Jewish students gather to sing wordless melodies, dive into textual study of Talmud or James Baldwin, or hold workshops on antisemitism.
  2. Unable or unwilling to speak; dumb, silent or inarticulate.

词形变化

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词汇关系

反义词
wordful

词源

From Middle English wordles, equivalent to word + -less. Compare Dutch woordeloos (“speechless, inexpressible in words”), German wortlos (“silent, speechless”), Danish ordløs (“wordless”), Swedish ordlös (“wordless”), Icelandic orðlaus (“wordless, speechless”).
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