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tongue tied
adjective as in inarticulate
adjective as in incoherent
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adjective as in mum
adjective as in mute
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adjective as in silent
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- bashful
- buttoned-up
- checked
- clammed up
- close
- closed-up
- closemouthed
- curbed
- dumb
- dummied up
- faint
- hush
- iced
- inarticulate
- incoherent
- inconversable
- indistinct
- inhibited
- laconic
- mousy
- muted
- noiseless
- nonvocal
- not talkative
- reserved
- shy
- silentious
- soundless
- still
- struck dumb
- taciturn
- tongue-tied
- unclear
- uncommunicative
- unheard
- unsociable
- unspeaking
- voiceless
- wordless
- zipped
adjective as in speechless
adjective as in tight-lipped
adjective as in tongue-tied
adjective as in dumb
verb as in muzzle
verb as in silence
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verb as in quieten
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verb as in shush
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verb as in gag
adjective as in unable to speak
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Example Sentences
It is amazing how tongue-tied they get when you present them with irrefutable information.
Fashion seems to leave some accomplished women tongue-tied or tripping over their own words.
Questioned about how he selects or rejects his parts, though, Gosling can get a bit tongue tied.
He lost track of his stump speech and was momentarily tongue-tied.
In fact, the governor does not need much more than a ballot line from the aimless, tongue-tied, villain-rich GOP.
At this impudent and barefaced falsehood, the agent was tongue-tied, but he turned to Hank.
She was unwilling to speak; she wanted to make Frederick understand what kind of person Mr. Thornton was—but she was tongue-tied.
For fear of getting tongue-tied again, I set right in, with a steady stream of talk.
He felt tongue-tied, more than usually awkward, terribly and shamefully nervous.
Even though I'd told the story three times that night, I found myself tongue-tied.
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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tongue-tied, such as: amazed, astounded, dazed, dumbfounded, garbled, and mute.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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