WordDisk
  • Reading
    • Shortcuts
      •   Home
      •   All Articles
      •   Read from Another Site
      Sources
      • Wikipedia
      • Simple Wikipedia
      • VOA Learning English
      • Futurity
      • The Conversation
      • MIT News
      • Harvard Gazette
      • Cambridge News
      • YDS/YÖKDİL Passages
      Topics
      • Technology
      • Engineering
      • Business
      • Economics
      • Human
      • Health
      • Energy
      • Biology
      • Nature
      • Space
  •  Log in
  •  Sign up
2.23
History
Add

inarticulate adjective [ ˌɪnɑːˈtɪkjʊlət ]

• unable to express one's ideas or feelings clearly or easily.
• "an inarticulate man of action"
Similar: tongue-tied, lost for words, at a loss for words, unable to express oneself, unable to get a word out, poorly spoken, mute, dumb, speechless, mumchance,
Opposite: articulate, silver-tongued,
• without joints or articulations.
Origin: early 17th century: from in-1 ‘not’ + the adjective articulate; the sense ‘not clearly pronounced’ corresponds to that of late Latin inarticulatus .


2025 WordDisk