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Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
Agnes Smedley

Meaning of "inarticulate" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INARTICULATE

inarticulate  [ˌɪnɑːˈtɪkjʊlɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INARTICULATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Inarticulate is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INARTICULATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of inarticulate in the English dictionary

The first definition of inarticulate in the dictionary is unable to express oneself fluently or clearly; incoherent. Other definition of inarticulate is unclear or incomprehensible; unintelligible. Inarticulate is also unable to speak; dumb.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INARTICULATE


aciculate
əˈsɪkjʊlɪt
apiculate
əˈpɪkjʊlɪt
articulate
ɑːˈtɪkjʊlɪt
auriculate
ɔːˈrɪkjʊlɪt
biauriculate
ˌbaɪɔːˈrɪkjʊlɪt
canaliculate
ˌkænəˈlɪkjʊlɪt
corbiculate
kɔːˈbɪkjʊlɪt
denticulate
dɛnˈtɪkjʊlɪt
funiculate
fjʊˈnɪkjʊlɪt
geniculate
dʒɪˈnɪkjʊlɪt
immaculate
ɪˈmækjʊlɪt
multarticulate
ˌmʌltɑːˈtɪkjʊlɪt
particulate
pɑːˈtɪkjʊlɪt
pediculate
pɪˈdɪkjʊlɪt
reticulate
rɪˈtɪkjʊlɪt
scrobiculate
skrəʊˈbɪkjʊlɪt
straticulate
strəˈtɪkjʊlɪt
testiculate
tɛˈstɪkjʊlɪt
turriculate
tʌˈrɪkjʊlɪt
unguiculate
ʌŋˈɡwɪkjʊlɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INARTICULATE

inapt
inaptitude
inaptly
inaptness
inarable
inarch
inarguable
inarguably
inarm
inarticulacy
inarticulately
inarticulateness
inarticulation
inartificial
inartificially
inartistic
inartistically
inasmuch
inasmuch as
inattention

WORDS THAT END LIKE INARTICULATE

accumulate
calculate
chocolate
circulate
congratulate
consulate
cumulate
ejaculate
emulate
formulate
insulate
manipulate
modulate
populate
postulate
reformulate
regulate
simulate
speculate
stimulate
stipulate

Synonyms and antonyms of inarticulate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INARTICULATE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «inarticulate» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of inarticulate

Translation of «inarticulate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INARTICULATE

Find out the translation of inarticulate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of inarticulate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «inarticulate» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

口齿不清
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

inarticulado
570 millions of speakers

English

inarticulate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अव्यक्त
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عيي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

невнятный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

inarticulado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অস্ফুট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

incapable de s´exprimer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Inarticulate
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unartikuliert
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

口がきけない
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

불명료
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Inarticulate
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

câm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தீர்க்கமாக உச்சரிக்கக்கூடாத
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनावश्यक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

anlaşılmaz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

inarticolato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niewyraźny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

невиразний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nearticulate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άναρθρες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sprakeloos
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oartikulerad
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uartikulert
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of inarticulate

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INARTICULATE»

The term «inarticulate» is normally little used and occupies the 114.130 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INARTICULATE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «inarticulate» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «inarticulate» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about inarticulate

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7 QUOTES WITH «INARTICULATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word inarticulate.
1
Joan Didion
My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.
2
Spike Jonze
I'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate.
3
Al Jourgensen
You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot.
4
Agnes Smedley
Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
5
Graham Swift
As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm not always articulate. I think we are all, from time to time, inarticulate, at some level, about some things.
6
Alice Walker
Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.
7
Edith Wharton
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INARTICULATE»

Discover the use of inarticulate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to inarticulate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Inarticulate Renaissance: Language Trouble in an Age of ...
"For Carla Mazzie, the specter of the inarticulate was part of a culture grappling with the often startlingly incoherent dimensions of language practices and ideologies in the humanities, religion, law, historiography, print, and vernacular ...
Carla Mazzio, 2009
2
Inarticulate longings: The ladies' home journal, gender, and ...
Inarticulate Longings explores the contradictions of a social agenda for women that promoted both traditional roles and the promises of a growing consumer culture by examining the advertising industry in the early 20th century.
Jennifer Scanlon, 1995
3
Van Morrison: Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
Discusses the life and work of the Belfast-born rock singer and songwriter, and suggests the sources of his creativity
John Collis, 1997
4
Russian-American Dialogue on the American Revolution
Little was known about these "inarticulate" patriots. But during the War of Independence men such as William Widger took the side of the insurgents. "The nationalism of the seamen was as authentic as the nationalism of a Jefferson, an Adams, ...
Gordon S. Wood, Louise G. Wood, 1995
5
Christian life and Christian hope: raids on the inarticulate
A world-class historian of the Anglican/Episcopal churches and early Christian history offers an accessible guide as seen through the eyes of the New Testament, Augustine, poet John Donne, and others.
Rowan A. Greer, 2001
6
The Ethics of Authenticity
II. THE. INARTICULATE. DEBATE. We can pick it up through a very influential recent book in the United States, Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind . The book itself was a rather remarkable phenomenon: a work by an academic ...
Charles Taylor, 1991
7
The High Court and the Constitution
It has also been held that the phrase "any law . . . of . . . revenue" in s 99 includes a tax law made under s 52(i) relating to Commonwealth places.135 The inarticulate major premise In the cases referred to above, the policies or values relied on ...
Leslie Zines, 2008
8
Literary Voice: The Calling of Jonah
However, what we have decided to call the "inarticulate" is responsible not for production of meaning on any scale, but rather for making such a production possible at all. Before the word is formed, it is grounded in the inarticulate, and only on ...
Donald Wesling, Tadeusz Sławek, 1995
9
Excavating Barbie/excavating Me: Digital Making (my) ...
The research revolves around six excavations representing my journey into the digital of both corporeal and binary digits.
Jennifer Peterson, 2007
10
The Importance of Nietzsche
10. NIETZSCHE'S. TERRORS: TIME. AND. THE. INARTICULATE. There are many records of Nietzsche's early life that may cautiously be interpreted as signs of a pathological condition existing long before any symptoms of the presumed ...
Erich Heller, 1988

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INARTICULATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term inarticulate is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Big Brother 2015: the Live Final review - Doncaster girl-next door …
Inarticulate "alpha male" Danny came third – stop press: he can now spell the word "canoe", so it was all worth it – before the runner-up and ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
HuffPo Treats Trump's Campaign as 'Entertainment' - Cortney O'Brien
His uncensored and inarticulate comments, however controversial, seem to be striking a chord with the public in a way that stale, political ... «Town Hall, Jul 15»
3
Conservative idiot shoots TV to protest media coverage of Caitlyn …
And in his goofy stunt we can see the inarticulate rage of an antiquated world view that's being left behind. The last gasps of a conservative ... «Death and Taxes, Jul 15»
4
Morton: Notley's reelection almost guaranteed if right can't unite …
In the 2008 provincial election, how did the previously unknown and inarticulate new PC premier, Ed Stelmach, rack up a crushing 72-seat ... «Calgary Herald, Jul 15»
5
'Amy' Digs Beyond The Singer's Public Persona | KUNC
At the same time, she's both an inarticulate kid and the great jazz singer that Tony Bennett adored. As story, Amy is undistinguished. «KUNC, Jul 15»
6
Sitting for Frank Auerbach - Christie's
It seems fortuitous that Auerbach is so eloquent. Do you think that is unusual? Lots of artists — Warhol, say — seem almost wilfully inarticulate. «Christie's, Jul 15»
7
The Fried Pork Chop at Old Country Cafe Taught Me to Embrace My …
... brought me back to the night markets of Taiwan but without that awkwardly ABT (American-born Taiwanese) experience of being inarticulate. «Eater LA, Jul 15»
8
Good thing 'Jeb' and 'Bush' are one syllable words - Sun Sentinel
My point simply is that, for a seasoned political candidate, Jeb Bush is extraordinarily inarticulate. His apparent message to Obama, Hillary ... «Sun Sentinel, Jul 15»
9
Review: Woody Allen's 'Irrational Man' Explores Life's Randomness …
A soulful presence, Mr. Phoenix excels at playing characters who often struggle to express themselves one tormented or comically inarticulate ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
10
Of Course Bill Cosby is Guilty! | Crown City News
And yet, I remain inarticulate. cosby2-620x330 While growing up, I watched everything Bill Cosby did. My father had several of his comedy ... «Crown City News, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Inarticulate [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/inarticulate>. Apr 2024 ».
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