What does utterless mean?
Utterless means (archaic, literary) Incapable of being uttered..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(archaic, literary) Incapable of being uttered..
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.
Thin lines of care about her mouth, And utterless longings in her eyes.
Use utterless when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Utterless means (archaic, literary) Incapable of being uttered..
Common synonyms include ineffable, unutterable.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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:
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