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say it: WURD-luhs
wordless is an adjective meaning "expressed without speech". It carries one recorded sense.
expressed without speech
“a mute appeal”
“a silent curse”
“best grief is tongueless”
“the words stopped at her lips unsounded”
“unspoken grief”
“choking exasperation and wordless shame”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wordless come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.