adjective
- Lacking a tongue.
- usage: "tongueless moccasins"
- Expressed without speech."a mute appeal"; "a silent curse"; "best grief is tongueless- Emily Dickinson; "the words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief"; "choking exasperation and wordless shame- Thomas Wolfe
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