tongue·less /ˈtʌŋləs/
(a.)沒有舌頭的,緘默的,啞的
Tongue·less a.
1. Having no tongue.
2. Hence, speechless; mute. “What tongueless blocks were they! would they not speak?”
3. Unnamed; not spoken of. [Obs.]
One good deed dying tongueless. --Shak.
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tongueless
adj 1: lacking a tongue; "tongueless moccasins" [ant: tongued]
2: lacking power of speech [syn: mute]
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
[syn: mute, unspoken, wordless]