They were left speechless.
Source: tatoeba (1571)
Speechless
//ˈspiːt͡ʃ.lɪs//
Synonyms for "speechless" (57 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (28)
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derived
1 entriesderived from
2 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
60 translations across 29 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- spraakloos adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- sprakeloos adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Bulgarian
2 entries- безмълвен adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- занемял adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Catalan
2 entries- bocabadat adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- emmudit adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 沈默 adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- 沉默 adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- 無言 /无言 adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- 無語 /无语 adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Danish
2 entries- mundlam adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- målløs adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Dutch
1 entries- sprakeloos adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Esperanto
1 entries- senparola adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Finnish
1 entries- sanaton adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
French
1 entries- sans voix adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
German
3 entries- fassungslos adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- sprachlos adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- stumm adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌳𐌿𐌼𐌱𐍃 adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Greek
3 entries- άναυδος adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- άφωνος adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- ενεός adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Hindi
1 entries- निःशब्द adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Hungarian
3 entries- eláll(t) a szava adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- meg se tud mukkanni adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- szótlan adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Icelandic
1 entries- orðlaus adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Indonesian
2 entries- kaku lidah adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- kelu adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Italian
2 entries- ammutolito adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- senza parole adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Latin
1 entries- ēlinguis adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- mållaus adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- målløs adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- mållaus adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Polish
2 entries- milczący adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- oniemiały adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Portuguese
4 entries- atónito adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- atônito adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- estarrecido adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- perplexo adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Russian
3 entries- безмо́лвный adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- онеме́вший adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- онеме́лый adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Sanskrit
1 entries- मूक adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Spanish
4 entries- atónito adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- boquiabierto adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- corchado adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- mudo adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Swedish
1 entries- mållös adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Telugu
1 entries- నోరులేని adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Thai
2 entries- พูดไม่ออก adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
- หมดคำพูด adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Vietnamese
1 entries- không biết nói gì adj (not speaking; not knowing what to say)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
I'm appalled. You leave me speechless.
Source: tatoeba (31152)
The woman was so surprised as to be speechless.
Source: tatoeba (44264)
I'm speechless.
Source: tatoeba (71882)
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