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utterless

utterless adjective: incapable of being uttered.

Adjective

utterless (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, literary) Incapable of being uttered.
    • Tis true, an adultres cannot be sham’d anough by any publick proceeding; but that woman whose honour is not appeach’t, is lesse injur’d by a silent dismission, being otherwise not illiberally dealth with, then to endure a clamouring debate of utterles things, in a busines of that civil secrecy and...1643, John Milton, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, London, page 45
    • […] there is a noise
      Among immortals when a God gives sign,
      With hushing finger, how he means to load
      His tongue with the full weight of utterless thought,
      With thunder, and with music, and with pomp:1820, John Keats, Hyperion, Book 2, in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: Taylor and Hessey, pp. 173-174

Synonyms of utterless

Origin of utterless

From utter + -less.

Questions about utterless

What does utterless mean?
Utterless means incapable of being uttered.
What part of speech is utterless?
Utterless is an adjective.

Words near utterless in the dictionary

  1. utteress
  2. utterest
  3. uttereth
  4. uttering
  5. utterings
  6. utterless
  7. utterly
  8. uttermore
  9. uttermost
  10. uttermosts
  11. utterness

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