Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Speechless"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Speechless \Speech"less\, a.
1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech.
2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent.
Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear.
--Addison.
-- {Speech"less*ly}, adv. -- {Speech"less*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
speechless
adj : unable to speak temporarily; "struck dumb"; "speechless with
shock" [syn: {dumb}]
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