# tongueless

> English word · Adjective

## Definitions
1. Having no tongue.
2. Having no tongue.
3. Lacking speech; mute.
4. Making no sound; silent, speechless.
5. Expressed without speech; wordless, unspoken.

## Etymology
From Middle English tongeles, tunglees, equivalent to tongue + -less. Cognate with Old Norse tungulauss (“tongueless”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/tongueless