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voiceless

adj. being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech

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aphasic

adj. unable to speak because of a brain lesion

mute, dumb, silent

adj. unable to speak because of hereditary deafness

dumb

adj. lacking the power of human speech; "dumb animals"

incoherent, tongue-tied

adj. unable to express yourself clearly or fluently; "felt tongue-tied with embarrassment"; "incoherent with grief"

mute, silent, tongueless, wordless, unspoken

adj. expressed without speech; especially because words would be inappropriate or inadequate; "a mute appeal"; "a silent curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief"; "choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe

dumb, speechless

adj. unable to speak temporarily; "struck dumb"; "speechless with shock"

stammering, stuttering

adj. unable to speak freely and easily

unarticulated

adj. uttered without the use of normal words or syllables

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