词穷
cí​qióng

at a loss for words

  • created sense approved 词穷/詞窮 · cí​qióng · at a loss for words — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    词穷 / 詞窮

    cí​qióng

    at a loss for words

    to have nothing more to say; to be unable to respond in an argument because one is wrong or poorly prepared

    词 (literal) → 词/詞 · cí · speech 穷 (literal) → 穷/窮 · qióng · to exhaust

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense