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Adjectives (2)

stammering, stuttering

adj. unable to speak freely and easily

Fuzzynyms (5)

halting

adj. fragmentary or halting from emotional strain; "uttered a few halting words of sorrow"

broken

adj. physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split; "a broken mirror"; "a broken tooth"; "a broken leg"; "his neck is broken"

faltering

adj. unsteady in speech or action

hesitant, hesitating

adj. lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly

Synonyms (16)

aphasic

adj. unable to speak because of a brain lesion

aphonic, voiceless

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

dumb, mute, 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, tongueless, unspoken, wordless

adj. expressed without speech; "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

speechless, dumb

adj. temporarily incapable of speaking; "struck dumb"; "speechless with shock"

unarticulated

adj. uttered without the use of normal words or syllables

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