Wordless
[wә:dlis]
Definition
(a.) Not using words; not speaking; silent; speechless.
Typist: Molly
Examples
- She sat upon the ground absorbed in wordless despair, when through the gusty wind and bickering rain she thought she heard her name called. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The relation between her and her husband was wordless and unknown, but it was deep, awful, a relation of utter inter-destruction. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Hitherto they had been voiceless, wordless, needing all their breath for their hard-labouring efforts to break down the gates. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Voiceless and viewless, stirless and wordless, he kept his station behind the pile of flowers. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Typist: Molly