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TONGUE-TIED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tongue-tied mean?
• TONGUE-TIED (adjective)
The adjective TONGUE-TIED has 1 sense:
1. unable to express yourself clearly or fluently
Familiarity information: TONGUE-TIED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unable to express yourself clearly or fluently
Synonyms:
incoherent; tongue-tied
Context example:
incoherent with grief
Similar:
inarticulate; unarticulate (without or deprived of the use of speech or words)
Context examples
He had never been so tongue-tied in his life.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Tongue-tied by inexperience and by excess of ardor, wooing unwittingly and awkwardly, Martin continued his approach by contact.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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