| Main Entry: | oration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speech |
Synonyms: |
address, chalk talk, declamation, discourse, harangue, homily, lecture, pep talk, pitch*, sermon, soapbox, spiel* |
Antonyms: |
print, writing |
| Main Entry: | address |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speech given to formal gathering |
Synonyms: |
chalk talk, discourse, dissertation, lecture, oration, pep talk, pitch, sermon, soapbox, spiel*, talk |
| Main Entry: | discourse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dialogue; dissertation |
Synonyms: |
address, article, chat, communication, conversation, converse, descant, discussion, disquisition, essay, gabfest, homily, huddle, lecture, memoir, monograph, monologue, oration, paper, rhetoric, sermon, speaking, speech, talk, thesis, tractate, treatise, utterance, verbalization |
Antonyms: |
quiet, silence |
| Main Entry: | eloquence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skillful way with words |
Synonyms: |
ability, appeal, articulation, command of language, delivery, diction, dramatic, expression, expressiveness, expressivity, facility, fervor, flow, fluency, force, forcefulness, gift of gab, grandiloquence, loquacity, meaningfulness, mellifluousness, oration, oratory, passion, persuasiveness, poise, power, rhetoric, spirit, style, vigor, vivacity, volubility, wit, wittiness |
Antonyms: |
dullness, inarticulateness |
| Main Entry: | harangue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | long lecture |
Synonyms: |
address, chewing out, declamation, diatribe, discourse, exhortation, hassle, jeremiad, oration, philippic, reading out, screed, sermon, speech, spiel*, spouting, tirade |
| Main Entry: | lecture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lesson, speech |
Synonyms: |
address, allocution, chalk talk, discourse, disquisition, harangue, instruction, oration, pep talk, pitch*, soapbox, spiel*, talk |
| Main Entry: | rant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | yelling, raving |
Synonyms: |
bluster, bombast, diatribe, fustian, harangue, oration, philippic, rhapsody, rhetoric, rodomontade, tirade, vociferation |
Antonyms: |
calm, quiet |
| Main Entry: | recitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reading to audience |
Synonyms: |
address, appeal, declaiming, delivery, discourse, discoursing, discussion, exercise, holding forth, lecture, monologue, narrating, narration, oration, passage, performance, piece, playing, proclamation, recital, recounting, rehearsal, rendering, report, selection, soliloquizing, speaking, talk, telling |
| Main Entry: | rhetoric |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wordiness; long speech |
Synonyms: |
address, balderdash, big talk, bombast, composition, discourse, elocution, eloquence, flowery language, fustian, grandiloquence, hot air, hyperbole, magniloquence, oration, oratory, pomposity, rant, verbosity |
Antonyms: |
conciseness |
| Main Entry: | speech |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | formal talk to audience |
Synonyms: |
address, allocution, appeal, bombast, chalk talk, commentary, debate, declamation, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, eulogy, exhortation, harangue, homily, invocation, keynote, lecture, opus, oration, oratory, panegyric, paper, parlance, parley, pep talk, pitch, prelection, recitation, rhetoric, salutation, sermon, spiel*, stump, tirade, valedictory |
Antonyms: |
listening |