speechless

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: speech=less
• COUNT in NET: 6 in 6 verses (in OT : 4 in 4 verses) (in NT : 2 in 2 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

speechless, a. 

•  Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech.  [1913 Webster]
•  Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent.  [1913 Webster]

  "Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

speechless, adj.
1 temporarily unable to speak because of emotion etc. (speechless with rage).
2 dumb.

Derivative

speechlessly adv. speechlessness n.

Etymology

OE sp{aelig}cleas (as SPEECH, -LESS)

THESAURUS

speechless

anaudic, aphasic, aphonic, breathless, brief, brusque, close, close-tongued, closemouthed, concise, curt, dazed, dumb, dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, economical of words, inarticulate, indisposed to talk, laconic, mum, mute, nonplussed, quiet, reserved, shocked, short, silent, snug, sparing of words, stricken dumb, taciturn, terse, thunderstruck, tight-lipped, tongue-tied, tongueless, uncommunicative, unloquacious, untalkative, voiceless, word-bound, wordless

ROGET THESAURUS

speechless

Aphony

N aphony, aphonia, dumbness, obmutescence, absence of voice, want of voice, dysphony, cacoepy, silence, raucity, harsh voice &c, unmusical voice, falsetto, childish treble mute, dummy, aphonous, dumb, mute, deafmute, deaf and dumb, mum, tongue-tied, breathless, tongueless, voiceless, speechless, wordless, mute as a fish, mute as a stockfish, mute as a mackerel, silent, muzzled, inarticulate, inaudible, croaking, raucous, hoarse, husky, dry, hollow, sepulchral, hoarse as a raven, rough, with bated breath, with the finger on the lips, sotto voce, in a low tone, in a cracked voice, in a broken voice, vox faucibus haesit.