Need another word that means the same as “speechless”? Find 7 synonyms and 30 related words for “speechless” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Speechless” are: dumb, silent, unspoken, unexpressed, wordless, unsaid, unvoiced
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “speechless” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| dumb | (of a person) unable to speak, most typically because of congenital deafness. Dumb officials make some really dumb decisions. |
| silent | Implied by or inferred from actions or statements. She fell silent for a moment. |
| unexpressed | (of a gene) not appearing in a phenotype. Shortness is a recessive or unexpressed characteristic of Mendel s pea plants. |
| unsaid | Not made explicit. Things left unsaid. |
| unspoken | Expressed without speech. Some kind of unspoken agreement. |
| unvoiced | (of a speech sound) uttered without vibration of the vocal cords. A person s unvoiced thoughts. |
| wordless | Not speaking or involving speech. Choking exasperation and wordless shame. |
| acquiescent | Ready to accept something without protest, or to do what someone else wants. Too acquiescent to challenge authority. |
| airhead | A flighty scatterbrained simpleton. Every airhead on a big salary rushed out to buy one. |
| deaf | Make or render deaf. Deaf children. |
| dumb | Make dumb or unheard silence. A splendour that dazed the mind and dumbed the tongue. |
| earplug | A plug of cotton, wax, or rubber that is fitted into the ear canal for protection against the entry of water or loud noise. |
| fatuity | A ludicrous folly. |
| fatuous | Extremely silly or stupid. A fatuous comment. |
| foolery | Foolish or senseless behavior. We endured his foolery all afternoon. |
| horrified | Filled with horror; extremely shocked. The horrified spectators. |
| idiotic | Having a mental age of three to seven years. I was able to hum its idiotic theme tune. |
| ignorance | Lack of knowledge or information. He acted in ignorance of basic procedures. |
| implicit | Implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something. The oak is implicit in the acorn. |
| inarticulate | Not clearly expressed or pronounced. An inarticulate cry. |
| inaudible | Impossible to hear; imperceptible by the ear. Inaudible pulses of high frequency sound. |
| incommunicado | Without the means or right to communicate. A prisoner held incommunicado. |
| mute | Muffle the sound of a musical instrument especially by the use of a mute. The great church was mute and dark. |
| quiet | Become quiet or quieter. He understood her wish for peace and quiet. |
| quietly | With little or no activity or no agitation quiet is a nonstandard variant for quietly. She was quietly confident that they d win. |
| silent | Unable to speak because of hereditary deafness. She fell silent for a moment. |
| stupidity | The quality of being stupid or unintelligent. A comedy of infantile stupidity. |
| sucker | Of a plant produce suckers. The suckers run along each tentacle. |
| tacit | Implied by or inferred from actions or statements. Your silence may be taken to mean tacit agreement. |
| taciturn | Habitually reserved and uncommunicative. After such gatherings she would be taciturn and morose. |
| uncharacteristically | In uncharacteristic manner. She seemed uncharacteristically quiet. |
| uncommunicative | Unwilling to talk or impart information. The uncommunicative Emily disappeared. |
| unobtrusive | Not obtrusive or undesirably noticeable. A quiet unobtrusive life of self denial. |
| unutterable | Very difficult to pronounce correctly. Unutterable contempt. |
| vocal | Relating to or designed for or using the singing voice. A vocal assembly. |
| withdrawn | Withdrawn from society seeking solitude. When her husband died she became very withdrawn. |
| wordless | Expressed without speech. Choking exasperation and wordless shame. |
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