Definitions
temporarily incapable of speaking
Word origin
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”).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“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.”
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