ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Utterless

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Utterless is an adjective meaning (archaic, literary) Incapable of being uttered.

Meaning

(archaic, literary) Incapable of being uttered.

Example Sentences

Thin lines of care about her mouth, And utterless longings in her eyes.
1820, John Keats, Hyperion, Book 2, in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: Taylor and Hessey, pp. 173-174, […] there is a noise Among immortals when a God gives sign, With hushing finger, how he means to load His tongue with the full weight of utterless thought, With thunder, and with music, and with pomp:
Tis true, an adultres cannot be sham’d anough by any publick proceeding; but that woman whose honour is not appeach’t, is lesse injur’d by a silent dismission, being otherwise not illiberally dealth with, then to endure a clamouring debate of utterles things, in a busines of that civil secrecy and difficult discerning, as not to be over-much question’d by neerest friends.

Synonyms for utterless

Depending on context, synonyms include ineffable, unutterable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include soundless, speechless, accessless, wordless, voiceless, unvoiced.

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