no words
Nothing to say
No words expresses being so affected by something—shocked, moved, amazed, or appalled—that speech fails: I just watched the finale. No words.
The phrase signals that the experience exceeds what language can capture, though ironically it takes words to say so.
Often stands alone as a complete reaction.
- silenceTotal lack of sound
- dead silenceTotal absence of sound
- deafening silenceConspicuous lack of sound
- speechlessUnable to talk
- at a loss for wordsUnable to articulate
lost for words · mute · quiet · hush · silent treatment · wordless · unspoken · tacit · voiceless · blank · empty · gesture · nod · glance · stillness · pregnant pause · tongue-tied · dumbfounded
verbal expression quantity
no wordsverbose
More words than necessary
wordy · loquacious · voluble · garrulous · long-winded
emotional speechlessness vs. expressibility
no wordsarticulate
Express clearly, or well-spoken
eloquence · expressive · well-spoken · fluent · silver-tongued