speechless

1. 1.

   temporarily incapable of speaking

   “struck dumb”

   “speechless with shock”

   Synonymsdumb

   Similarinarticulate

Other forms of speechless

comparative

speechlesser·

superlative

speechlessest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about speechless

What does speechless mean?

speechless means "temporarily incapable of speaking".

How many syllables are in speechless?

speechless has 2 syllables: speech-less. The stress falls on "speech". In IPA it is /ˈspitʃləs/.

What is another word for speechless?

Close synonyms include dumb. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is speechless a common word?

speechless is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.