to be struck speechless

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• speechless — I adjective agape, aghast, amazed, aphonic, astonished, awe struck, bewildered, dumb, dumbstruck, elinguis, gagged, inarticulate, incapable of utterance, indisposed to words, mum, mute, mutus, noiseless, open mouthed, quiet, silent, soundless,… …   Law dictionary

• speechless — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. aphonic, mute, dumb. See silence, taciturnity. Ant., talkative. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. aphonic, inarticulate, voiceless, mum; see dumb 1 , mute 1 . See Synonym Study at dumb . III (Roget s 3… …   English dictionary for students

• speechless — adj 1. dumbstruck, dumbstricken, struck dumb, dumfounded, Inf. choked up, wordless; tongue tied, inarticulate, unable to get a word out; shocked, amazed, astounded, Inf. floored, paralyzed; thunderstruck, confounded, dazed, nonplused. 2.… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• struck all of a heap —  Rendered speechless, nonplussed, astonished …   A concise dictionary of English slang

• awe-struck — adj 1. solemn, reverent, reverential, awed. See reverent (defs.1, 2). 2. dismayed, daunted, cowed, intimidated, overawed; overwhelmed, terrified, horrorstruck, appalled, abashed; stupefied, dumbfounded, struck speechless or mute or dumb with… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• awe-struck — index speechless Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• dumb-struck — index speechless Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• awe struck — stunned, astounded, struck dumb, speechless …   English contemporary dictionary

• awe-struck — stunned, astounded, struck dumb, speechless …   English contemporary dictionary

• dumb — adj 1 Dumb, mute, speechless, inarticulate mean lacking the power to speak. Dumb and mute are often used interchangeably, but when used in distinction from each other, dumb implies an incapacity for speech (as in the case of animals and inanimate …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• bewildered — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. confused, puzzled, perplexed, baffled, lost, amazed, astonished, thunderstruck, shocked, muddled, upset, dismayed, dazed, giddy, dizzy, reeling, vertiginous, misled, addled, mystified, uncertain, surprised, disconcerted,… …   English dictionary for students