[
US
/ˈspitʃɫəs/
]
[ UK /spˈiːtʃləs/ ]
[ UK /spˈiːtʃləs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
temporarily incapable of speaking
struck dumb
speechless with shock
How To Use speechless In A Sentence
- The shock of the discovery rendered him speechless.
- Alex was almost speechless with rage and despair.
- It left us both joyful and speechless, happy to be home again but sad that this great trip was over.
- The news left us all speechless.
- I did appreciate the 50-year-old unicyclist who drew an unamused Howie Mandel into his act and rendered him momentarily speechless. Matt's TV Week in Review
- She stared hard at the blonde, and fumbled for words, but was speechless.
- He was struggling to read a funny e-mail, but it rendered him speechless, so he segued into the next song without introduction.
- Lena simply stared at him across the table, open-mouthed, speechless, to say the least.
- Carl heard these words from far away and though they conferred on him a feeling of complete despair they roused him briefly from his speechless stupor.
- I. ii.188 (19,2) [There is a prone and speechless dialect] I can scarcely tell what signification to give to the word _prone_. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies