Definition of inarticulate in English:

inarticulate

adjective ˌɪnɑːˈtɪkjʊlətˌɪnɑrˈtɪkjələt

1Unable to express one's ideas or feelings clearly or easily.
an inarticulate man of action
Example sentencesExamples
- It is difficult to say when the idea of Australians as an inarticulate and laconic people took hold, but by the twentieth century this had become a staple of Australian cultural criticism.
- He should have been frightened, tired, nervous, uncertain, inarticulate.
- He was verbally inarticulate and could not enunciate a clear concept or formulate ideas.
- Reading, which not only requires but creates solitude, takes us to the edge of inarticulate solitary experience in the company of other writers and other readers.
- Well, you know, there's different kinds of intelligence that I - it's very clear that a lot of people that have really strong instincts as actors are very often inarticulate.
- This is also not to say that the artists were in any way unintelligent or even inarticulate (although some were); many were very interesting to listen to.
- He becomes completely inarticulate and unable to close the deal, as it were, because he loves her too much!
- Speechless and inarticulate, they are bound together forever in their sense of loss and love for a young woman, whom they never really knew nor understood.
- His hidden rolls of writings are found, and unexpectedly writing again becomes his salvation when the prison superintendent, an inarticulate oaf, makes him write love poems for his girlfriend.
- I'm not a public speaker to begin with, and so what if I just embarrass myself, or come across as inarticulate and incoherent?
- If they are not tongue-tied, they are either inarticulate or brash.
- Family meals can be a good forum for voicing opinions, for trying out ideas and even for gauging how an inarticulate teenager is feeling, allowing a parent to pick up on a small but strongly felt injustice before it causes a row.
- These characters may be inarticulate, their words awkward attempts to express existential disquiet.
- For the inarticulate Trevor, ‘I think you're really cool,’ is a major statement of devotion, and ‘buck up, little camper’ is the best consolation he can offer.
- Although I don't consider myself unintelligent or inarticulate, I don't tend to have the courage of my convictions when called upon to air my opinions.
- Today, only the host is allowed to be that and he surrounds himself with inarticulate stagehands, delicatessen owners and others who are guaranteed to never come up with an intentional funny remark.
- When the play was filmed in 1951, his brutish, inarticulate Kowalski unleashed a cry of anguish that would echo down the decades.
- It's the one where he played a dumb sullen inarticulate Brooklyn paint-store clerk.
- Their strong leader was inarticulate, arrogant, confused and immature.
- He comes across as a shallow, inarticulate man, simplistic in speech and inauthentic in manner.
Synonyms
tongue-tied, lost for words, at a loss for words, unable to express oneself, unable to get a word out, poorly spoken
mute, dumb, speechless
rare mumchance
1. 1.1 Not clearly expressed or pronounced.
  表达不清的，发音含混的
  Fay gave a faint, inarticulate cry
  Example sentencesExamples
  I would think long and hard before assuming that inarticulate speech and a gift for malapropism are indicators of stupidity.
  Beverly strained to hear his inarticulate words.
  If the standard less-than-a-page short poem characteristically is uninterested, if not inarticulate, on the subject of time, it is no less implicated.
  For more background on that, you should read the three posts I wrote back then, the last of which has enough pictures to give a sense of the whole concept without the effort of ploughing through my clumsy inarticulate prose.
  The point, however inchoate, inarticulate, and immature, was to register dissent with the status quo and to assert some measure of individuality in a stultifying, conformist atmosphere.
  My opening post was pretty ill-formed and inarticulate, but I'm glad that people have an idea about what I'm getting at.
  He yelled something inarticulate containing the word ‘demon’.
  Thoughts and emotions are not communicated or portrayed so much as suggested, truncated and dispatched with inarticulate pseudo-sophistication.
  The majority of the crew shouted inarticulate phrases and their calm, concerned visages turned to shock.
  He's a little dumbfounded at reviews of the film that criticize the repetitiveness of some dialogue or inarticulate speech, two of the aspects that make the film feel true.
  Young males are particularly criticized for greeting others quickly in an incomprehensible and inarticulate manner.
  Paradoxically, his inarticulate speech and inchoate thinking vividly express his frustration and anger: he has no skills with which to cope effectively with the inevitable set-backs of his life.
  Synonyms
  unintelligible, incomprehensible, incoherent, unclear, indistinct, mumbled, muttered, muffled
  hesitant, faltering, hesitating, halting, stumbling, stuttering, stammering
  confused, garbled, muddled, rambling, disjointed, jumbled
2. 1.2 Not expressed in words.
  未表达的，未说出口的，说不出口的，无言的
  mention of her mother filled her with inarticulate irritation
  提到她母亲，她心中充满了无言的愤怒。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Her comment struck me as the most penetrating I have heard in relation to this much-discussed film, which has incited a level of critical hostility, in some cases bordering on inarticulate rage, rarely seen in the mass media these days.
  Recorded in Seattle partly during last year's anti-capitalist riots, it opens with three songs which seem to encapsulate the inarticulate, ultimately directionless rage of that protest.
  And the friendship the two men have is sort of touching in an inarticulate way; the performances, while not sterling, are natural enough to make you believe that a guy can come out to his straight male roommate and not have it be a huge deal.
  At that moment he felt toward Mary and Jan a dumb, cold, and inarticulate hate.
  Like I said, at 16 in my 14th century cloisters I was a cynic and a puritan, convinced in some inarticulate depth that the world had gone wrong, in ways more fundamental than I could even name.
  Just as Ashes cricket is a substitute for the war of independence that Australia has never actually fought, so too is football a venting of the latent aggression, frustration and inarticulate rage within the Australian psyche.
  Beneath the linguistic sparklers and Catherine wheels, there is a subtle and moving examination of the inarticulate moment: gesture and touch, weeping and laughter.
  Because so many of the encounters are inarticulate, ideas aren't developed as fluently as in the two earlier films.
  Synonyms
  unspoken, silent, unexpressed, wordless, unvoiced, unsaid, unuttered, unvocalized
  voiceless, soundless
2Without joints or articulations.
无关节的
1. 2.1Zoology Denoting a brachiopod in which the valves of the shell have no hinge and are held together by muscles.
  〔动〕（腕足类动物壳瓣）无铰合部的，无关节而只以肌肉连接的
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Brachiopoda for example, was present, but greatest diversity was shown by inarticulate brachiopods (like the one in the upper middle, from the Upper Cambrian of Iowa).
  Quasimodaspis, along with the inarticulate brachiopods that are the only other fossils so far recovered from this locality, was probably transported from a shallower facies.
  This small group of Linguliform inarticulate brachiopods includes only about 14 known genera.
  The Trimerellacea are a small group of quite large inarticulate brachiopods.
  The Discinids are a small long-lived group of inarticulate brachiopods with chitinophosphatic shells.

Derivatives

inarticulacy

noun

What was important to us was to make a film that was about a kind of inarticulacy of experience, which was about how difficult it is to develop, whatever age you are - whether you're 17 or whether you're 40.
Example sentencesExamples
- His dewy-eyed, slightly fumbling sincerity - his brilliantly articulate impersonation of earnest inarticulacy - has all along been tied to this self-projection as a Good Man.
- Sometimes his fist is raised in anger, always as a means to convey male frustration and inarticulacy.
- Yet for me, for whatever reason - maybe it was my small rebellion - it was inarticulacy that moved me.
- He's so laid back he's practically prone, closing down questions in a southern-fried drawl, acting the cool guy to the point of inarticulacy.

inarticulately

adverbˌɪnɑːˈtɪkjʊlətliˌɪnɑrˈtɪkjələtli

They express, however inarticulately, an understanding of what life might be about, outside the constraints of work and the struggle for survival.
Example sentencesExamples
- I just did my best, however inarticulately, to defend the integrity of my work.
- However inarticulately they express it, the British electorate do not believe that they are being offered something for nothing.
- I'm not trying to have an argument either - that's what the ‘I don't care’ was inarticulately trying to express.
- I stood and rather inarticulately said my piece.

inarticulateness

nounˌɪnɑːˈtɪkjʊlətnəsˌɪnɑrˈtɪkjələtnəs

Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent.
Example sentencesExamples
- The same inarticulateness and lack of differentiation described below makes it difficult to come up with much germane to the major event of the day, but when words seem like a luxury, there's always film.
- But inarticulateness can be a serious liability when nuanced explanations from the Commander-in-Chief are required.
- So when I found out that he was on the panel, I was reduced to a bundle of inarticulateness.
- Even if we eventually get lost in our own inarticulateness, our attempts to speak of God truly are not in vain, nor are they of purely academic interest.

Origin

Early 17th century: from in-¹ 'not' + the adjective articulate; the sense 'not clearly pronounced' corresponds to that of late Latin inarticulatus.

Definition of inarticulate in US English:

inarticulate

adjectiveˌinärˈtikyələtˌɪnɑrˈtɪkjələt

1Unable to speak distinctly or express oneself clearly.
口齿不清的，不善表达的
he was inarticulate with abashment and regret
他因羞愧悔恨而表达不了自己。
Example sentencesExamples
- I'm not a public speaker to begin with, and so what if I just embarrass myself, or come across as inarticulate and incoherent?
- It is difficult to say when the idea of Australians as an inarticulate and laconic people took hold, but by the twentieth century this had become a staple of Australian cultural criticism.
- These characters may be inarticulate, their words awkward attempts to express existential disquiet.
- For the inarticulate Trevor, ‘I think you're really cool,’ is a major statement of devotion, and ‘buck up, little camper’ is the best consolation he can offer.
- Speechless and inarticulate, they are bound together forever in their sense of loss and love for a young woman, whom they never really knew nor understood.
- He comes across as a shallow, inarticulate man, simplistic in speech and inauthentic in manner.
- He was verbally inarticulate and could not enunciate a clear concept or formulate ideas.
- Reading, which not only requires but creates solitude, takes us to the edge of inarticulate solitary experience in the company of other writers and other readers.
- Well, you know, there's different kinds of intelligence that I - it's very clear that a lot of people that have really strong instincts as actors are very often inarticulate.
- When the play was filmed in 1951, his brutish, inarticulate Kowalski unleashed a cry of anguish that would echo down the decades.
- Today, only the host is allowed to be that and he surrounds himself with inarticulate stagehands, delicatessen owners and others who are guaranteed to never come up with an intentional funny remark.
- It's the one where he played a dumb sullen inarticulate Brooklyn paint-store clerk.
- Their strong leader was inarticulate, arrogant, confused and immature.
- He becomes completely inarticulate and unable to close the deal, as it were, because he loves her too much!
- Family meals can be a good forum for voicing opinions, for trying out ideas and even for gauging how an inarticulate teenager is feeling, allowing a parent to pick up on a small but strongly felt injustice before it causes a row.
- His hidden rolls of writings are found, and unexpectedly writing again becomes his salvation when the prison superintendent, an inarticulate oaf, makes him write love poems for his girlfriend.
- He should have been frightened, tired, nervous, uncertain, inarticulate.
- Although I don't consider myself unintelligent or inarticulate, I don't tend to have the courage of my convictions when called upon to air my opinions.
- This is also not to say that the artists were in any way unintelligent or even inarticulate (although some were); many were very interesting to listen to.
- If they are not tongue-tied, they are either inarticulate or brash.
Synonyms
tongue-tied, lost for words, at a loss for words, unable to express oneself, unable to get a word out, poorly spoken
1. 1.1 Not clearly expressed or pronounced.
  表达不清的，发音含混的
  inarticulate complaints of inadequate remuneration
  对报酬不足的含混抱怨。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The point, however inchoate, inarticulate, and immature, was to register dissent with the status quo and to assert some measure of individuality in a stultifying, conformist atmosphere.
  The majority of the crew shouted inarticulate phrases and their calm, concerned visages turned to shock.
  He's a little dumbfounded at reviews of the film that criticize the repetitiveness of some dialogue or inarticulate speech, two of the aspects that make the film feel true.
  Young males are particularly criticized for greeting others quickly in an incomprehensible and inarticulate manner.
  He yelled something inarticulate containing the word ‘demon’.
  Thoughts and emotions are not communicated or portrayed so much as suggested, truncated and dispatched with inarticulate pseudo-sophistication.
  If the standard less-than-a-page short poem characteristically is uninterested, if not inarticulate, on the subject of time, it is no less implicated.
  My opening post was pretty ill-formed and inarticulate, but I'm glad that people have an idea about what I'm getting at.
  For more background on that, you should read the three posts I wrote back then, the last of which has enough pictures to give a sense of the whole concept without the effort of ploughing through my clumsy inarticulate prose.
  I would think long and hard before assuming that inarticulate speech and a gift for malapropism are indicators of stupidity.
  Beverly strained to hear his inarticulate words.
  Paradoxically, his inarticulate speech and inchoate thinking vividly express his frustration and anger: he has no skills with which to cope effectively with the inevitable set-backs of his life.
  Synonyms
  unintelligible, incomprehensible, incoherent, unclear, indistinct, mumbled, muttered, muffled
2. 1.2 Not expressed; unspoken.
  未表达的，未说出口的，说不出口的，无言的
  mention of her mother filled her with inarticulate irritation
  提到她母亲，她心中充满了无言的愤怒。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Beneath the linguistic sparklers and Catherine wheels, there is a subtle and moving examination of the inarticulate moment: gesture and touch, weeping and laughter.
  At that moment he felt toward Mary and Jan a dumb, cold, and inarticulate hate.
  Recorded in Seattle partly during last year's anti-capitalist riots, it opens with three songs which seem to encapsulate the inarticulate, ultimately directionless rage of that protest.
  And the friendship the two men have is sort of touching in an inarticulate way; the performances, while not sterling, are natural enough to make you believe that a guy can come out to his straight male roommate and not have it be a huge deal.
  Because so many of the encounters are inarticulate, ideas aren't developed as fluently as in the two earlier films.
  Just as Ashes cricket is a substitute for the war of independence that Australia has never actually fought, so too is football a venting of the latent aggression, frustration and inarticulate rage within the Australian psyche.
  Like I said, at 16 in my 14th century cloisters I was a cynic and a puritan, convinced in some inarticulate depth that the world had gone wrong, in ways more fundamental than I could even name.
  Her comment struck me as the most penetrating I have heard in relation to this much-discussed film, which has incited a level of critical hostility, in some cases bordering on inarticulate rage, rarely seen in the mass media these days.
  Synonyms
  unspoken, silent, unexpressed, wordless, unvoiced, unsaid, unuttered, unvocalized
2Without joints or articulations.
无关节的
1. 2.1Zoology Denoting a brachiopod in which the valves of the shell have no hinge and are held together by muscles.
  〔动〕（腕足类动物壳瓣）无铰合部的，无关节而只以肌肉连接的
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Brachiopoda for example, was present, but greatest diversity was shown by inarticulate brachiopods (like the one in the upper middle, from the Upper Cambrian of Iowa).
  Quasimodaspis, along with the inarticulate brachiopods that are the only other fossils so far recovered from this locality, was probably transported from a shallower facies.
  The Trimerellacea are a small group of quite large inarticulate brachiopods.
  This small group of Linguliform inarticulate brachiopods includes only about 14 known genera.
  The Discinids are a small long-lived group of inarticulate brachiopods with chitinophosphatic shells.

Origin

Early 17th century: from in- ‘not’ + the adjective articulate; the sense ‘not clearly pronounced’ corresponds to that of late Latin inarticulatus.

词汇	inarticulate
释义	Definition of inarticulate in English: inarticulate adjective ˌɪnɑːˈtɪkjʊlətˌɪnɑrˈtɪkjələt 1Unable to express one's ideas or feelings clearly or easily. an inarticulate man of action Example sentencesExamples It is difficult to say when the idea of Australians as an inarticulate and laconic people took hold, but by the twentieth century this had become a staple of Australian cultural criticism. He should have been frightened, tired, nervous, uncertain, inarticulate. He was verbally inarticulate and could not enunciate a clear concept or formulate ideas. Reading, which not only requires but creates solitude, takes us to the edge of inarticulate solitary experience in the company of other writers and other readers. Well, you know, there's different kinds of intelligence that I - it's very clear that a lot of people that have really strong instincts as actors are very often inarticulate. This is also not to say that the artists were in any way unintelligent or even inarticulate (although some were); many were very interesting to listen to. He becomes completely inarticulate and unable to close the deal, as it were, because he loves her too much! Speechless and inarticulate, they are bound together forever in their sense of loss and love for a young woman, whom they never really knew nor understood. His hidden rolls of writings are found, and unexpectedly writing again becomes his salvation when the prison superintendent, an inarticulate oaf, makes him write love poems for his girlfriend. I'm not a public speaker to begin with, and so what if I just embarrass myself, or come across as inarticulate and incoherent? If they are not tongue-tied, they are either inarticulate or brash. Family meals can be a good forum for voicing opinions, for trying out ideas and even for gauging how an inarticulate teenager is feeling, allowing a parent to pick up on a small but strongly felt injustice before it causes a row. These characters may be inarticulate, their words awkward attempts to express existential disquiet. For the inarticulate Trevor, ‘I think you're really cool,’ is a major statement of devotion, and ‘buck up, little camper’ is the best consolation he can offer. Although I don't consider myself unintelligent or inarticulate, I don't tend to have the courage of my convictions when called upon to air my opinions. Today, only the host is allowed to be that and he surrounds himself with inarticulate stagehands, delicatessen owners and others who are guaranteed to never come up with an intentional funny remark. When the play was filmed in 1951, his brutish, inarticulate Kowalski unleashed a cry of anguish that would echo down the decades. It's the one where he played a dumb sullen inarticulate Brooklyn paint-store clerk. Their strong leader was inarticulate, arrogant, confused and immature. He comes across as a shallow, inarticulate man, simplistic in speech and inauthentic in manner. Synonyms tongue-tied, lost for words, at a loss for words, unable to express oneself, unable to get a word out, poorly spoken mute, dumb, speechless rare mumchance 1.1 Not clearly expressed or pronounced. 表达不清的，发音含混的 Fay gave a faint, inarticulate cry Example sentencesExamples I would think long and hard before assuming that inarticulate speech and a gift for malapropism are indicators of stupidity. Beverly strained to hear his inarticulate words. If the standard less-than-a-page short poem characteristically is uninterested, if not inarticulate, on the subject of time, it is no less implicated. For more background on that, you should read the three posts I wrote back then, the last of which has enough pictures to give a sense of the whole concept without the effort of ploughing through my clumsy inarticulate prose. The point, however inchoate, inarticulate, and immature, was to register dissent with the status quo and to assert some measure of individuality in a stultifying, conformist atmosphere. My opening post was pretty ill-formed and inarticulate, but I'm glad that people have an idea about what I'm getting at. He yelled something inarticulate containing the word ‘demon’. Thoughts and emotions are not communicated or portrayed so much as suggested, truncated and dispatched with inarticulate pseudo-sophistication. The majority of the crew shouted inarticulate phrases and their calm, concerned visages turned to shock. He's a little dumbfounded at reviews of the film that criticize the repetitiveness of some dialogue or inarticulate speech, two of the aspects that make the film feel true. Young males are particularly criticized for greeting others quickly in an incomprehensible and inarticulate manner. Paradoxically, his inarticulate speech and inchoate thinking vividly express his frustration and anger: he has no skills with which to cope effectively with the inevitable set-backs of his life. Synonyms unintelligible, incomprehensible, incoherent, unclear, indistinct, mumbled, muttered, muffled hesitant, faltering, hesitating, halting, stumbling, stuttering, stammering confused, garbled, muddled, rambling, disjointed, jumbled 1.2 Not expressed in words. 未表达的，未说出口的，说不出口的，无言的 mention of her mother filled her with inarticulate irritation 提到她母亲，她心中充满了无言的愤怒。 Example sentencesExamples Her comment struck me as the most penetrating I have heard in relation to this much-discussed film, which has incited a level of critical hostility, in some cases bordering on inarticulate rage, rarely seen in the mass media these days. Recorded in Seattle partly during last year's anti-capitalist riots, it opens with three songs which seem to encapsulate the inarticulate, ultimately directionless rage of that protest. And the friendship the two men have is sort of touching in an inarticulate way; the performances, while not sterling, are natural enough to make you believe that a guy can come out to his straight male roommate and not have it be a huge deal. At that moment he felt toward Mary and Jan a dumb, cold, and inarticulate hate. Like I said, at 16 in my 14th century cloisters I was a cynic and a puritan, convinced in some inarticulate depth that the world had gone wrong, in ways more fundamental than I could even name. Just as Ashes cricket is a substitute for the war of independence that Australia has never actually fought, so too is football a venting of the latent aggression, frustration and inarticulate rage within the Australian psyche. Beneath the linguistic sparklers and Catherine wheels, there is a subtle and moving examination of the inarticulate moment: gesture and touch, weeping and laughter. Because so many of the encounters are inarticulate, ideas aren't developed as fluently as in the two earlier films. Synonyms unspoken, silent, unexpressed, wordless, unvoiced, unsaid, unuttered, unvocalized voiceless, soundless 2Without joints or articulations. 无关节的 2.1Zoology Denoting a brachiopod in which the valves of the shell have no hinge and are held together by muscles. 〔动〕（腕足类动物壳瓣）无铰合部的，无关节而只以肌肉连接的 Example sentencesExamples The Brachiopoda for example, was present, but greatest diversity was shown by inarticulate brachiopods (like the one in the upper middle, from the Upper Cambrian of Iowa). Quasimodaspis, along with the inarticulate brachiopods that are the only other fossils so far recovered from this locality, was probably transported from a shallower facies. This small group of Linguliform inarticulate brachiopods includes only about 14 known genera. The Trimerellacea are a small group of quite large inarticulate brachiopods. The Discinids are a small long-lived group of inarticulate brachiopods with chitinophosphatic shells. Derivatives inarticulacy noun What was important to us was to make a film that was about a kind of inarticulacy of experience, which was about how difficult it is to develop, whatever age you are - whether you're 17 or whether you're 40. Example sentencesExamples His dewy-eyed, slightly fumbling sincerity - his brilliantly articulate impersonation of earnest inarticulacy - has all along been tied to this self-projection as a Good Man. Sometimes his fist is raised in anger, always as a means to convey male frustration and inarticulacy. Yet for me, for whatever reason - maybe it was my small rebellion - it was inarticulacy that moved me. He's so laid back he's practically prone, closing down questions in a southern-fried drawl, acting the cool guy to the point of inarticulacy. inarticulately adverbˌɪnɑːˈtɪkjʊlətliˌɪnɑrˈtɪkjələtli They express, however inarticulately, an understanding of what life might be about, outside the constraints of work and the struggle for survival. Example sentencesExamples I just did my best, however inarticulately, to defend the integrity of my work. However inarticulately they express it, the British electorate do not believe that they are being offered something for nothing. I'm not trying to have an argument either - that's what the ‘I don't care’ was inarticulately trying to express. I stood and rather inarticulately said my piece. inarticulateness nounˌɪnɑːˈtɪkjʊlətnəsˌɪnɑrˈtɪkjələtnəs Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent. Example sentencesExamples The same inarticulateness and lack of differentiation described below makes it difficult to come up with much germane to the major event of the day, but when words seem like a luxury, there's always film. But inarticulateness can be a serious liability when nuanced explanations from the Commander-in-Chief are required. So when I found out that he was on the panel, I was reduced to a bundle of inarticulateness. Even if we eventually get lost in our own inarticulateness, our attempts to speak of God truly are not in vain, nor are they of purely academic interest. Origin Early 17th century: from in-¹ 'not' + the adjective articulate; the sense 'not clearly pronounced' corresponds to that of late Latin inarticulatus. Definition of inarticulate in US English: inarticulate adjectiveˌinärˈtikyələtˌɪnɑrˈtɪkjələt 1Unable to speak distinctly or express oneself clearly. 口齿不清的，不善表达的 he was inarticulate with abashment and regret 他因羞愧悔恨而表达不了自己。 Example sentencesExamples I'm not a public speaker to begin with, and so what if I just embarrass myself, or come across as inarticulate and incoherent? It is difficult to say when the idea of Australians as an inarticulate and laconic people took hold, but by the twentieth century this had become a staple of Australian cultural criticism. These characters may be inarticulate, their words awkward attempts to express existential disquiet. For the inarticulate Trevor, ‘I think you're really cool,’ is a major statement of devotion, and ‘buck up, little camper’ is the best consolation he can offer. Speechless and inarticulate, they are bound together forever in their sense of loss and love for a young woman, whom they never really knew nor understood. He comes across as a shallow, inarticulate man, simplistic in speech and inauthentic in manner. He was verbally inarticulate and could not enunciate a clear concept or formulate ideas. Reading, which not only requires but creates solitude, takes us to the edge of inarticulate solitary experience in the company of other writers and other readers. Well, you know, there's different kinds of intelligence that I - it's very clear that a lot of people that have really strong instincts as actors are very often inarticulate. When the play was filmed in 1951, his brutish, inarticulate Kowalski unleashed a cry of anguish that would echo down the decades. Today, only the host is allowed to be that and he surrounds himself with inarticulate stagehands, delicatessen owners and others who are guaranteed to never come up with an intentional funny remark. It's the one where he played a dumb sullen inarticulate Brooklyn paint-store clerk. Their strong leader was inarticulate, arrogant, confused and immature. He becomes completely inarticulate and unable to close the deal, as it were, because he loves her too much! Family meals can be a good forum for voicing opinions, for trying out ideas and even for gauging how an inarticulate teenager is feeling, allowing a parent to pick up on a small but strongly felt injustice before it causes a row. His hidden rolls of writings are found, and unexpectedly writing again becomes his salvation when the prison superintendent, an inarticulate oaf, makes him write love poems for his girlfriend. He should have been frightened, tired, nervous, uncertain, inarticulate. Although I don't consider myself unintelligent or inarticulate, I don't tend to have the courage of my convictions when called upon to air my opinions. This is also not to say that the artists were in any way unintelligent or even inarticulate (although some were); many were very interesting to listen to. If they are not tongue-tied, they are either inarticulate or brash. Synonyms tongue-tied, lost for words, at a loss for words, unable to express oneself, unable to get a word out, poorly spoken 1.1 Not clearly expressed or pronounced. 表达不清的，发音含混的 inarticulate complaints of inadequate remuneration 对报酬不足的含混抱怨。 Example sentencesExamples The point, however inchoate, inarticulate, and immature, was to register dissent with the status quo and to assert some measure of individuality in a stultifying, conformist atmosphere. The majority of the crew shouted inarticulate phrases and their calm, concerned visages turned to shock. He's a little dumbfounded at reviews of the film that criticize the repetitiveness of some dialogue or inarticulate speech, two of the aspects that make the film feel true. Young males are particularly criticized for greeting others quickly in an incomprehensible and inarticulate manner. He yelled something inarticulate containing the word ‘demon’. Thoughts and emotions are not communicated or portrayed so much as suggested, truncated and dispatched with inarticulate pseudo-sophistication. If the standard less-than-a-page short poem characteristically is uninterested, if not inarticulate, on the subject of time, it is no less implicated. My opening post was pretty ill-formed and inarticulate, but I'm glad that people have an idea about what I'm getting at. For more background on that, you should read the three posts I wrote back then, the last of which has enough pictures to give a sense of the whole concept without the effort of ploughing through my clumsy inarticulate prose. I would think long and hard before assuming that inarticulate speech and a gift for malapropism are indicators of stupidity. Beverly strained to hear his inarticulate words. Paradoxically, his inarticulate speech and inchoate thinking vividly express his frustration and anger: he has no skills with which to cope effectively with the inevitable set-backs of his life. Synonyms unintelligible, incomprehensible, incoherent, unclear, indistinct, mumbled, muttered, muffled 1.2 Not expressed; unspoken. 未表达的，未说出口的，说不出口的，无言的 mention of her mother filled her with inarticulate irritation 提到她母亲，她心中充满了无言的愤怒。 Example sentencesExamples Beneath the linguistic sparklers and Catherine wheels, there is a subtle and moving examination of the inarticulate moment: gesture and touch, weeping and laughter. At that moment he felt toward Mary and Jan a dumb, cold, and inarticulate hate. Recorded in Seattle partly during last year's anti-capitalist riots, it opens with three songs which seem to encapsulate the inarticulate, ultimately directionless rage of that protest. And the friendship the two men have is sort of touching in an inarticulate way; the performances, while not sterling, are natural enough to make you believe that a guy can come out to his straight male roommate and not have it be a huge deal. Because so many of the encounters are inarticulate, ideas aren't developed as fluently as in the two earlier films. Just as Ashes cricket is a substitute for the war of independence that Australia has never actually fought, so too is football a venting of the latent aggression, frustration and inarticulate rage within the Australian psyche. Like I said, at 16 in my 14th century cloisters I was a cynic and a puritan, convinced in some inarticulate depth that the world had gone wrong, in ways more fundamental than I could even name. Her comment struck me as the most penetrating I have heard in relation to this much-discussed film, which has incited a level of critical hostility, in some cases bordering on inarticulate rage, rarely seen in the mass media these days. Synonyms unspoken, silent, unexpressed, wordless, unvoiced, unsaid, unuttered, unvocalized 2Without joints or articulations. 无关节的 2.1Zoology Denoting a brachiopod in which the valves of the shell have no hinge and are held together by muscles. 〔动〕（腕足类动物壳瓣）无铰合部的，无关节而只以肌肉连接的 Example sentencesExamples The Brachiopoda for example, was present, but greatest diversity was shown by inarticulate brachiopods (like the one in the upper middle, from the Upper Cambrian of Iowa). Quasimodaspis, along with the inarticulate brachiopods that are the only other fossils so far recovered from this locality, was probably transported from a shallower facies. The Trimerellacea are a small group of quite large inarticulate brachiopods. This small group of Linguliform inarticulate brachiopods includes only about 14 known genera. The Discinids are a small long-lived group of inarticulate brachiopods with chitinophosphatic shells. Origin Early 17th century: from in- ‘not’ + the adjective articulate; the sense ‘not clearly pronounced’ corresponds to that of late Latin inarticulatus.
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