inarticulate

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You are right; after this I will go my way alone Her voice became inarticulate, the last word was a sob, and she turned swiftly to leave the room Olive sprang forward with a remorseful cry, but Clarence Vaughan motioned her back, and with a quick stride was at the door, one hand upon it, the other firmly clasping the wrist of the now sobbing girl.

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  1. adjective 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. adjective Unable to speak; speechless: inarticulate with astonishment.
  3. adjective Unable to speak with clarity or eloquence: an inarticulate debater.
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  • He was largely inarticulate, and apparently had little interest beyond the football pools. —  Ruined City by Nevil Shute
  • A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that The late Canon Kingsley certainly conceived much of the height and depth, and length and breath of song, when he wrote There is music in heaven, because in music there is no self-will. —  Brave Men and Women
  • He is a man disenfranchised from his own life through being inarticulate, the concept a powerful metaphor for our inability to converse meaningfully with each other. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#2
  • Do we need to ban books that portray whites as "ignorant, inarticulate, and uneducated" because we have had white presidents that don't characterization? —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • Watching SP quickly react & articulate while under stress indicates she is clearly smarter than the bumbling, inarticulate, affirmative action receiving, Messiah. —  THE IRATE NATION
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  1. = French inarticulé = Spanish Portuguese inarticulado = Italian inarticolato, from Late Latin inarticulatus, not articulate, not distinct, from Latin in-privative + Late Latin articulatus, pointed, articulate: see articulate.
 

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/ɪnɑrˈtɪkjulət/
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