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US
/ˌɪnɑɹˈtɪkjəɫət/
]
[ UK /ɪnɑːtˈɪkjʊlˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /ɪnɑːtˈɪkjʊlˌeɪt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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without or deprived of the use of speech or words
remained stupidly inarticulate and saying something noncommittal
an inarticulate cry
inarticulate beasts
inarticulate with rage
How To Use inarticulate In A Sentence
- The Kennedy partisans are quite a tongue-tied bunch, all of them struggling gamely, if inarticulately, to somehow dismiss or disdain or circumlocute what is, apparently, the main focus of the film. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
- Although I don't consider myself unintelligent or inarticulate, I don't tend to have the courage of my convictions when called upon to air my opinions.
- For the inarticulate Trevor, ‘I think you're really cool,’ is a major statement of devotion, and ‘buck up, little camper’ is the best consolation he can offer.
- Like I said, at 16 in my 14th century cloisters I was a cynic and a puritan, convinced in some inarticulate depth that the world had gone wrong, in ways more fundamental than I could even name.
- Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent.
- Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.
- If they are not tongue-tied, they are either inarticulate or brash.
- It is difficult to say when the idea of Australians as an inarticulate and laconic people took hold, but by the twentieth century this had become a staple of Australian cultural criticism.
- He has also been accused of being a shameless self-publicist, boring, inarticulate and lucky.
- The disembodied voices were most striking - patients' miserable repeated calls for help, muted protests, inarticulate moans, and whimpers.