Crossword clues for inarticulate
inarticulate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inarticulate \In`ar*tic"u*late\, a. [L. inarticulatus; pref. in- not + articulatus articulate.]
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Not uttered with articulation or intelligible distinctness, as speech or words.
Music which is inarticulate poesy.
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(Zo["o]l.)
Not jointed or articulated; having no distinct body segments; as, an inarticulate worm.
Without a hinge; -- said of an order ( Inarticulata or Ecardines) of brachiopods.
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Incapable of articulating. [R.]
The poor earl, who is inarticulate with palsy.
--Walpole. Incapable of expressing one's ideas or feelings clearly.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "not clear or intelligible" (of speech), from Late Latin inarticulatus "inarticulate, indistinct," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + articulatus, past participle of articulare (see articulation). Related: Inarticulately; inarticulateness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of speech English) not articulated in normal words 2 speechless 3 unable to speak with any clarity 4 (context biology English) not having joints or other articulations
WordNet
adj. without or deprived of the use of speech or words; "inarticulate beasts"; "remained stupidly inarticulate and saying something noncommital"; "inarticulate with rage"; "an inarticulate cry" [syn: unarticulate] [ant: articulate]
Usage examples of "inarticulate".
This three at the main table uttered simultaneous inarticulate cries while Vulcan looked to Coan for direction.
Yet my innumerable seas and streams, Mountains, and caves, and winds, and yon wide air, And the inarticulate people of the dead, Preserve, a treasured spell.
Then he opened his mouth in an inarticulate roar of frustration and rage, a long piece of rebar held over his head like a staff.
Into his charge, then, I surrendered Rosinante, and followed my inarticulate acquaintance into the noise and heat and lustre of the Inn.
Yet, though by upbringing a mere subman, ignorant, inarticulate, bewildered, teased by his own unfulfilled humanity, he was by native capacity fully human.
With an inarticulate roar he whirled, making wide sweeps with his great sword to keep them from piling on his back.
With broken blessings, inarticulate joy And tears, Alcestis thanked Hyperion, And worshipped.
Thud and Cheryl Anne exchanged numerous dark looks and made numerous inarticulate and threatening noises, but restrained themselves from further verbal combat.
It was indeed a pleasing picture which those two young heads presented as Euthymia gave her inarticulate but infinitely expressive answer to the question of Maurice Kirkwood.
Something frozen and fixed is upon his manner, over and above its usual shell of haughtiness, and Mr. Bucket soon detects an unusual slowness in his speech, with now and then a curious trouble in beginning, which occasions him to utter inarticulate sounds.
The passionate but inarticulate needers of a flaming God to redeem their humble faith or at least help them get even.
Then the inarticulate, irregular outcries took upon themselves a measured rhythm, the movement of the mass formed itself upon the monotonous chant, the intervals grew shorter, the mule broke into a trot, and then the whole vast multitude fell into a weird, rhythmical, jogging quick step at her side.
And growing inarticulate with passion, he stood before her clinching and unclinching his great hand, and his lips trembling.
Mayhap he was not so inarticulate as expected from one of the lower orders, for he presented a persuasive story about a pair of urchins picking his pockets.
But it was the candid appraisement in his gaze which stabbed mercilessly into some lacerated nerve that was throbbing painfully away down in the depths of the Jew's crushed and battered fibre a swelling nerve of contempt for his own weakness and inadequacy, the same nerve whose mute and inarticulate reactions had been clenching his soft hands into those pitifully helpless fists before the Saint came.