| 单词 | inarticulate |
| 释义 | inarticulate (once / 2156 pages) adj Use the adjective inarticulate to describe poor communication skills, like at your most inarticulate moments when you nervously fumble to find the right word and completely forget to make your most important point. Inarticulate sounds — a grunt, cry, scream, snort, wail, howl, moan, sob, snicker — are heard but not easily understood. If something is inarticulate, it is hard to get the meaning, like an inarticulate speech whose main idea can't be found. Creative works can also be inarticulate, when it isn't clear what — if anything — they are trying to express, like a painter whose gallery show that is called "inarticulate" by a critic: You can't grasp what the artist is trying to say. WORD FAMILYinarticulate: inarticulately+/articulate: articulated, articulately, articulateness, articulates, articulating, articulation, articulative, articulator, articulatory, disarticulate, inarticulate, unarticulate/articulated: unarticulated/articulation: articulations/articulator: articulators/disarticulate: disarticulated, disarticulating USAGE EXAMPLESThere is more of a bromance — if an inarticulate, kind of embarrassed one — between the partners than in other versions. Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) He may be handsome and charming and mechanically adept, but he’s rather dull and inarticulate with no defined personality. New York Times(Dec 20, 2016) He spoke like an inarticulate ninth-grader with Pakistan’s prime minister, according to that country’s readout. Washington Post(Dec 06, 2016) adj without or deprived of the use of speech or words inarticulate beasts remained stupidly inarticulate and saying something noncommittal inarticulate with rage an inarticulate cry Syn|Ant unarticulate aphasic unable to speak because of a brain lesion aphonic, voicelessbeing without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech dumb, mute, silentunable to speak because of hereditary deafness dumblacking the power of human speech incoherent, tongue-tiedunable to express yourself clearly or fluently mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordlessexpressed without speech dumb, speechlesstemporarily incapable of speaking unarticulateduttered without the use of normal words or syllables incommunicative, uncommunicativenot inclined to talk or give information or express opinions articulate expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language eloquent, facile, fluent, silver, silver-tongued, smooth-spokenexpressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively speech-endowedcapable of speech well-spokenspeaking or spoken fittingly or pleasingly communicative, communicatoryable or tending to communicate spokenuttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination |
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