utterless
utterless adjective: incapable of being uttered.
Adjective
utterless (not comparable)
- 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:
- ineffable, unutterable
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.
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