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wordless

adj

Etymology

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”).

  1. inherited from wordles

Definitions

  1. Conveyed without the use of words

    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.

  2. Unable or unwilling to speak

    Unable or unwilling to speak; dumb, silent or inarticulate.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for wordless. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA