tongueless.
Having no tongue.
Meaning & usage
Having no tongue. Having no tongue whether through its normal nature, because of birth defect, or because of amputation.
tongueless amphibians
Having no tongue. Having no tongue because hitched in another way.
tongueless plow
Lacking speech; mute.
Making no sound; silent, speechless.
Expressed without speech; wordless, unspoken.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English tongeles, tunglees, equivalent to tongue + -less. Cognate with Old Norse tungulauss (“tongueless”).
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.