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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Uttered without the use of normal words or syllables; incomprehensible as speech or language: "a cry . . . that . . . sank down into an inarticulate whine” ( Jack London).
  2. adj. Unable to speak; speechless: inarticulate with astonishment.
  3. adj. Unable to speak with clarity or eloquence: an inarticulate debater.
  4. adj. Going unexpressed: inarticulate sorrow.
  5. adj. Biology Not having joints or segments.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In anatomy and zoology, not articulated; having no articulation or joint; specifically, of or pertaining to the Inarticulata; lyopomatous; ecardinal.
  2. Not articulate; not uttered or emitted with expressive or intelligible modulations, as sounds or speech; not distinct or with distinction of syllables.
  3. Not articulating or speaking; incapable of expressing thought in speech.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. of speech not articulated in normal words
  2. adj. speechless
  3. adj. unable to speak with any clarity
  4. adj. biology not having joints or other articulations

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Not uttered with articulation or intelligible distinctness, as speech or words.
  2. adj. Not jointed or articulated; having no distinct body segments.
  3. adj. Without a hinge; -- said of an order (Inarticulata or Ecardines) of brachiopods.
  4. adj. rare Incapable of articulating.
  5. adj. Incapable of expressing one's ideas or feelings clearly.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. without or deprived of the use of speech or words

Etymologies

  1. in- +‎ articulate (Wiktionary)

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  • Telofy You inarticulated it well! Dec 10, 2009

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