Tongueless (Adjective)
Meaning 2
Expressed without speech; "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.
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The elderly woman's eyes conveyed a tongueless plea for help as she clutched her aching chest.
- The protesters held up signs with bold letters, their message tongueless but no less powerful.
- In the silence that followed, the group's collective guilt was tongueless, yet palpable.
- Her sigh was tongueless, a heavy exhalation that spoke volumes about her frustration.
- The old man's grief was tongueless, his only expression a stoic determination to keep moving forward.