单词 | tongueless |
释义 | tongueless (once / 56283 pages) adj WORD FAMILY tongue: tongued, tongueless, tonguelike, tongues, tonguing USAGE EXAMPLESAll night long, men moved through the darkness outside their tents like tongueless wraiths with cigarettes. Joseph Heller, Catch-22(1961) Some animals are naturally tongueless, but certain unlucky fish lose their tongues to parasites. National Geographic(Oct 31, 2015) These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God(1937) 1adj lacking a tongue tongueless moccasins Ant tongued provided with or resembling a tongue; often used in combination tonguelikeresembling a tongue in form or function 2adj expressed without speech "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson Syn mute, unspoken, wordless inarticulate, unarticulate without or deprived of the use of speech or words |
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