wordless

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When she finally rose to her feet, she hesitated a moment, wordless, and he pushed to his feet as well and they fell into step beside each other.

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  1. adjective Not expressed in words; unspoken. wordless animosity; wordless joy.
  2. adjective Inarticulate; silent: wordless spectators.

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  • They would both be comfortable, wordless, the way it had been just six months ago. —  Gone by Lisa Gardner
  • Chicken and Cat Clean Up. Like Varon's earlier works Robot Dreams and Chicken and Cat, this sequel to Chicken and Cat is a speechless comic (I would say "wordless" but there are words in the environment of the comic, on trucks, stores, etc) which I would imagine makes it exceptionally attractive to young children just beginning or not quite yet reading. —  COMIXTALK
  • When she finally rose to her feet, she hesitated a moment, wordless, and he pushed to his feet as well and they fell into step beside each other. —  Wraithbait
  • You can see the write up for this post tomorrow as today is supposed to be wordless or almost wordless so I will post the text in another post, but don't tell anyone. —  BC Bloggers
  • The first and last are almost wordless, while the middle is a ferocious torrent of dialogue - overall, a verbal dance framed in silence. —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
 

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inarticulate ·  anguished ·  plaintive ·  raucous ·  unspoken ·  hoarse ·  throaty ·  mute ·  incoherent ·  soundless ·  long-drawn ·  frenzied
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  1. from Middle English wordles (= Icelandic orthlauss, orthalauss); from word + -less.
 

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/ˈwərdlɛs/
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