0 unable to express feelings or ideas clearly, or expressed in a way that is difficult to understand: --
His speech was inarticulate and it was obvious he had been drinking.
When it comes to expressing their emotions, some people are hopelessly inarticulate.
1 unable to express feelings or ideas in words, or communicated in a way that is difficult to understand: --
She is, quite literally, rendered inarticulate.
Yet, when you get right down to it, all instances of ordinary discourse, even among the most inept, inarticulate, untalented practitioners, are to some degree creative responses to novel situations.
To speak the truth of one's feelings and desires, to "share" them as the saying has it, is not merely a rendering audible of the inarticulate murmurings of the soul.
Their observations are highly generalized, occasionally remarkably inarticulate.
Only in the thick of the rescue action is he musically inarticulate and improbably dashing.
Other senses may indeed furnish signs; and yet those signs have no more right than inarticulate sounds to be thought a language.
But then, fighting words simply express, without articulating, the speaker's perspective, and they invite various inarticulate responses.
I may remain in an inarticulate state, in a state of intelligent feeling.
