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wordless

wordless adjective: conveyed without the use of words; unspoken or unsaid.

Adjective

wordless (comparative more wordless, superlative most wordless)

  1. Conveyed without the use of words; unspoken or unsaid.
    • On any given Friday night at the Claremont Colleges, between 15 and 20 Jewish students gather to sing wordless melodies, dive into textual study of Talmud or James Baldwin, or hold workshops on antisemitism.2019 July 3, Jess Schwalb, “Red Line Rebellion”, in Jewish Currents
  2. Unable or unwilling to speak; dumb, silent or inarticulate.
    Synonyms:
    speechless

wordless meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Vietnamese

wordless in Hindi

unable or unwilling to speak
निःशब्द niḥśabd

wordless in Urdu

بےحرف, خاموش

wordless in Bengali

অকথিত, না বলা, কথা বলতে অক্ষম, অনিচ্ছুক, নির্বাক, নীরব

wordless in Vietnamese

unspoken
vô ngôn

Synonyms of wordless

Antonyms

Forms of wordless

comparativemore wordless
superlativemost wordless

Origin of wordless

From Middle English wordles, equivalent to word + -less. Compare Dutch woordeloos (“speechless, inexpressible in words”), German wortlos (“silent, speechless”), Danish ordløs (“wordless”), Swedish ordlös (“wordless”), Icelandic orðlaus (“wordless, speechless”).

Words formed from wordless

Questions about wordless

What does wordless mean?
Wordless means conveyed without the use of words; unspoken or unsaid.
What is wordless in Hindi?
Wordless in Hindi is निःशब्द (niḥśabd). See Wordless meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is wordless?
Wordless is an adjective.

Words near wordless in the dictionary

  1. wordlength
  2. wordlengths
  3. Wordler
  4. Wordlers
  5. wordles
  6. wordless
  7. wordlessly
  8. wordlessness
  9. wordlessnesses
  10. wordlet
  11. wordlets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wordless (page history and authors); wordless (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wordless (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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