inarticulate
IPA: ɪnɑrtˈɪkjʌɫʌt
noun
- (zoology) An animal belonging to the subphylum Inarticulata.
adjective
- (of speech) not articulated in normal words.
- speechless
- unable to speak with any clarity
- (biology) not having joints or other articulations
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Examples of "inarticulate" in Sentences
- Being ill-informed, uneducated, and inarticulate is not a policy.
- Saxon gasped, standing with hands clasped in inarticulate delight.
- The statements were obviously taken out of context, and at worst he is guilty of being inarticulate, which is not a hate crime.
- Sure, the country has accepted that he's inarticulate, which is mind boggling in itself, but he's ripe for ridicule in so many ways.
- So knowledge that’s widespread but implicit and inarticulate is routinely mistaken for the kind of innovation it’s necessary to incentivize with a monopoly grant.
- To reconstruct meaningful patterns of behavior about the so-called inarticulate masses, they borrowed methods from the other social and behavioral sciences—psychology, sociology, and anthropology.
- And a habitual indulgence in the inarticulate is a sure sign of the philosopher who has not learned to think, the poet who has not learned to write, the painter who has not learned to paint, and the impression that has not learned to express itself -- all of which are compatible with an immensity of genius in the inexpressible soul.
- Generally the rhythm runs out with a series of what might be called inarticulate drum-beats, as if an impulse existed still unsatisfied, blindly making itself felt in these insignificant pulsations; an impulse which a finer melodic sense would have satisfied by the proper antithesis in relation to the first phrase, thus leaving the melody and the rhythm to complete themselves together, as always takes place in civilized music.
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