speechless
adjectifattesté dans les dialogues
- États-Unis//ˈspiːt͡ʃ.lɪs//
Not speaking; not knowing what to say; silent, especially due to surprise, amazement, etc.; wordless.
adjectif
- 1
Not speaking; not knowing what to say; silent, especially due to surprise, amazement, etc.; wordless.
When he walked into his surprise birthday party, he was completely speechless.
The attack was so unwarranted and delivered with such venom that his unpreparedness for it left him speechless.
- 2
archaïqueSynonym of unspeakable.
Immortal Pleaſures round my ſwimming Eyes did dance, And ſpeechleſs Joys, in whoſe ſweet Tumult toſt, I thought my Breath, and my new Being loſt.
O Mother Earth, O Sun that makest clean, What poison have I heard, what speechless sin !
Étymologie
From Middle English specheles, from Old English sprǣċlēas (“speechless; without the power of speak”), from Proto-Germanic *sprēkalausaz, equivalent to speech + -less. Cognate with West Frisian sprakeleas (“speechless”), Dutch sprakeloos (“speechless”), German Low German spraaklos (“speechless”), German sprachlos (“speechless”).
speechless · Not speaking; not knowing what to say; silent, especially due to surprise, amazement, etc.; wordless.
speed · The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion.Speed · A surname transferred from the nickname.speeding · Travelling very fast; moving at speed.