inarticulate

inarticulate
    adj 1: without or deprived of the use of speech or words;
           "inarticulate beasts"; "remained stupidly inarticulate
           and saying something noncommittal"; "inarticulate with
           rage"; "an inarticulate cry" [syn: {inarticulate},
           {unarticulate}] [ant: {articulate}]
    

Inarticulate \In`ar*tic"u*late\, a. [L. inarticulatus; pref. in-
   not + articulatus articulate.]
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   1. Not uttered with articulation or intelligible
      distinctness, as speech or words.
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            Music which is inarticulate poesy.    --Dryden.
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   2. (Zool.)
      (a) Not jointed or articulated; having no distinct body
          segments; as, an inarticulate worm.
      (b) Without a hinge; -- said of an order ({Inarticulata}
          or {Ecardines}) of brachiopods.
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   3. Incapable of articulating. [R.]
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            The poor earl, who is inarticulate with palsy.
                                                  --Walpole.

   4. Incapable of expressing one's ideas or feelings clearly.
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102 Moby Thesaurus words for "inarticulate":
      Greek to one, ambiguous, anaudic, aphasic, aphonic, bashful,
      beyond understanding, blurred, breathless, breathy, choked,
      choking, confused, conscious, coy, croaking, demure, digressive,
      discursive, disjointed, drawling, drawly, dumb, dumbfounded,
      dumbstricken, dumbstruck, dysphonic, faltering, garbled, guttural,
      halting, harsh, hawking, hesitating, hoarse, illogical,
      impenetrable, implicit, implied, incognizable, incoherent,
      incomprehensible, indistinct, inferred, inscrutable, irrational,
      jumbled, lisping, maundering, mispronounced, mixed-up, mousy,
      muddled, muffled, mum, mumbled, mumbling, mute, muzzy, nasal,
      numinous, past comprehension, quavering, rambling, scrambled,
      self-conscious, shaking, shaky, shamefaced, shamefast, shy, silent,
      skittish, snuffling, speechless, stammering, stifled, strangled,
      stricken dumb, thick, throaty, timid, timorous, tongue-tied,
      tongueless, tremulous, twangy, unclear, unconnected, undeclared,
      unexpressed, unfathomable, unintelligible, unknowable, unsaid,
      unsearchable, unspoken, unuttered, velar, voiceless, wild,
      wordless