tongueless Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective lacking a tongue
    • tongueless moccasins
  2. adjective satellite expressed without speech
    wordless; unspoken; mute.
    • 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

WordNet

Tongue"less adjective
Definitions
  1. Having no tongue.
  2. Hence, speechless; mute. "What tongueless blocks were they! would they not speak?" Shak.
  3. Unnamed; not spoken of. Obs.
    One good deed dying tongueless. Shak.

Webster 1913