tongue-tied

adjective

Definition of tongue-tiednext
as in mute
unable to speak because you are nervous or shy She became tongue-tied whenever he was around. He gets tongue-tied in front of crowds.

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tongue-tied
  1. mute
  2. speechless
  3. incomprehensible
  4. inarticulate
  5. incoherent
  6. silent
Adjective
  • However, give yourself permission to mute group chats with friends if the conversation or information shared feels overwhelming.
    Allie Volpe, Vox, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Please check back again soon for the recorded video. LIVE VIDEO TO BEGIN AFTER AD Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% Use up and down arrows to change volume, and spacebar or enter to toggle mute.
    Will Knight, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of mute
Adjective
  • In helicopter video taken by Air Maui Helicopter Tours in Lahaina and posted online the people aboard are largely speechless.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Because his work, as is often the case, leaves us almost speechless.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Jan. 2023
Definition of speechless
Adjective
  • Trump’s speeches at rallies, especially of late, are rambling to the point of being incomprehensible.
    Richard Behar, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Their contributions to my life are incomprehensible.
    Emma Madden, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of incomprehensible
Adjective
  • Playing the 81-year-old president as aghast, confused, and inarticulate could easily amount to an unkind impersonation, but in Carvey’s masterful hands, there is zero heightening — only dead-on accuracy.
    Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
  • The pod-person version of Sam is particularly unsettling — a swaying, inarticulate mass of flesh whose only purposes are to kill and to die — and that level of grotesquerie is hard to shake.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 31 May 2024
Definition of inarticulate
Adjective
  • Some states are in line with certain federal practices, and then some states are doing a bunch of incoherent, illogical things.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2024
  • There’s no shortage of accessible documentation showing the 78-year-old’s slide from strategically unpredictable to perilously incoherent.
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
Definition of incoherent
Adjective
  • Wearing a dark grey suit, Williams mostly sat silent and stared ahead as the Trans’ relatives spoke Tuesday.
    Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Newsletter Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science news Because there are typically no symptoms until the first fracture occurs, osteoporosis is considered a silent disease.
    Jianying Zhang, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024
Definition of silent
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Thesaurus Entries Near tongue-tied

tongues

tongue-tied

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