[
US
/ˈspitʃɫəs/
]
[ UK /spˈiːtʃləs/ ]
[ UK /spˈiːtʃləs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
temporarily incapable of speaking
struck dumb
speechless with shock
How To Use speechless In A Sentence
- In chantries unrehearsed we'd wow the votarists and serenade the friary to panting ecstasies while summoned to kingly chambers we branked the troubadours, turning the sovereign mind to heaven, the courtiers left speechless with neglect... Strange Bedfellows
- 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.