| Main Entry: | talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speech, address to group |
Synonyms: |
allocution, chalk talk, declamation, descant, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, epilogue, exhortation, expatiation, harangue, homily, lecture, monologue, oration, peroration, prelection, recitation, screed, sermon, spiel* |
Antonyms: |
listening |
| Main Entry: | talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gossip |
Synonyms: |
allusion, badinage, banter, blather, bombast, bunk, buzz*, cant, chat, chatter, chitchat, conversation, cry, gab, grapevine, hearsay, hint, hot air, idle talk, innuendo, insinuation, jaw, jive, lip, noise, nonsense*, palaver, persiflage, prose, racket, raillery, report, rot*, rubbish*, rumble*, rumor, scuttlebutt, small talk, trash*, tête-è-tête, yarn |
| Main Entry: | talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | discussion |
Synonyms: |
argument, colloquy, conclave, confabulation, conference, consultation, conversation, deliberation, dialogue, earful, encounter, eyeball-to-eyeball, huddle, interlocution, interview, meeting, negotiation, palaver, parlance, parley, powwow, seminar, spiel*, straight talk, symposium, ventilation, visit |
Antonyms: |
silence |
| Main Entry: | talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | communication with language |
Synonyms: |
argot, chatter, dialect, discourse, jargon, lingo, locution, parlance, patois, slang, speaking, speech, utterance, verbalization, vocalization, words |
Antonyms: |
silence |
| Main Entry: | talk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce words; inform |
Synonyms: |
articulate, babble, broach, chant, chat, chatter, comment on, communicate, confess, converse, describe, divulge, drawl, drone, express, flap one's tongue, gab, gabble, give voice to, gossip, influence, intone, notify, palaver, parley, patter, persuade, prate, prattle, pronounce, reveal, rhapsodize, run on, say, sing*, soliloquize, speak, spill the beans, spout, squeak, squeal, talk one's leg off, tell, tell all, use, utter, ventriloquize, verbalize, voice, yak |
Antonyms: |
listen |
| Main Entry: | talk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discuss with another |
Synonyms: |
argue, be in contact, canvass, carry on conversation, chew*, collogue, commune, confabulate, confer, confide, consult, contact, deliberate, dialogue, engage in conversation, exchange, go into a huddle, groupthink, have a meet, hold discussion, huddle, interact, interface, interview, join in conversation, keep in touch, negotiate, network*, palaver, parley, reach out, reason, relate, thrash out, touch base, touch*, vent, visit |
Antonyms: |
refrain, refuse |
| Main Entry: | talk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | address group |
Synonyms: |
accost, deliver a speech, discourse, give a talk, give speech, harangue, hold forth, induce, influence, lecture, orate, persuade, pitch, prelect, sermonize, speak, spiel*, spout, stump, sway* |
Antonyms: |
listen |
| 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: | address |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speak to a formal gathering |
Synonyms: |
approach, bespeak, call, deliver speech, deliver talk, discourse, discuss, get on a soapbox, give speech, give talk, greet, hail, lecture, memorialize, orate, pitch, pontificate, root for, sermonize, spiel*, spout, stump, take the floor, talk |
| Main Entry: | admit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | confess, acknowledge |
Synonyms: |
accept, accord, acquiesce, adopt, affirm, agree, allow, approve, avow, bare, bring to light, communicate, concede, concur, confide, confirm, consent, cop a plea, credit, declare, disclose, divulge, enumerate, expose, go into details, grant, indicate, let, let on, make known, narrate, number, open up, own, own up, permit, proclaim, profess, recite, recognize, relate, reveal, spill*, subscribe to, talk, tell, tolerate, uncover, unveil, yield |
| Notes: | with admit, the acknowledgment of something being true applies to one's own sphere of conduct, whereas with concede the acknowledgment applies to another's; admit implies reluctance to disclose, grant, or concede and refers usually to facts rather than their implications |
Antonyms: |
confute, deny, dispute, dissent, gainsay, refuse |