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| Main Entry: | articulate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clearly, coherently spoken |
| Synonyms: | clear, coherent, comprehensible, definite, distinct, eloquent, expressive, fluent, intelligible, lucid, meaningful, understandable, well-spoken |
| Notes: | loquacious means very talkative or full of trivial conversation; articulate means expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language |
| Antonyms: | unclear, unintelligible, misrepresented |
| Main Entry: | articulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | say clearly, coherently |
| Synonyms: | enunciate, express, mouth, pronounce, say, speak, state, talk, utter, verbalize, vocalize, voice, sound off |
| Antonyms: | bumble, misrepresent, misspeak |
| Main Entry: | articulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | connect |
| Synonyms: | couple, hinge, integrate, join, link, concatenate, fit together |
| Antonyms: | disconnect |
| Main Entry: | coherent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | understandable |
| Synonyms: | articulate, comprehensible, consistent, intelligible, logical, lucid, meaningful, orderly, organized, rational, sound, systematic, identified, reasoned |
| Antonyms: | disorganized, incomprehensible, irrational, unintelligible, not understandable, unrational, unsystematic |
| Main Entry: | eloquent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having a skillful way with words |
| Synonyms: | affecting, ardent, articulate, expressive, fervent, fervid, fluent, forceful, glib, grandiloquent, graphic, impassioned, impressive, indicative, magniloquent, meaningful, moving, outspoken, passionate, persuasive, poignant, potent, powerful, rhetorical, sententious, significant, silver-tongued*, stirring, suggestive, telling, touching, vivid, vocal, voluble, facund, revealing, smooth-spoken*, well-expressed |
| Antonyms: | dull, inarticulate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | emphasize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stress, give priority to |
| Synonyms: | accent, accentuate, affirm, articulate, assert, bear down, charge, dramatize, dwell on, enlarge, enunciate, headline, highlight, hit*, impress, indicate, limelight*, maintain, mark, pinpoint, play up*, point out*, press, pronounce, punctuate, reiterate, repeat, spotlight*, underline, underscore, weight, insist on, italicize, labor the point, make a point, make clear, make emphatic, make much of, point up*, put accent on, rub in |
| Antonyms: | depreciate, forget, ignore, play down, understate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enunciate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speak clearly |
| Synonyms: | affirm, announce, articulate, declare, deliver, develop, express, intone, modulate, outline, postulate, proclaim, promulgate, pronounce, publish, say, show, sound, state, submit, utter, vocalize, voice, enounce, lay down, phonate, propound |
| Antonyms: | muffle, mumble, mispronounce |
| Main Entry: | expressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | telling, revealing |
| Synonyms: | alive, articulate, artistic, brilliant, colorful, demonstrative, dramatic, eloquent, emphatic, energetic, forcible, graphic, indicative, ingenious, lively, masterly, meaningful, mobile, moving, passionate, pathetic, picturesque, poignant, pointed, pregnant, representative, responsive, showy, significant, silver-tongued*, spirited, stimulating, stirring, striking, strong, suggestive, sympathetic, tender, thoughtful, touching, understanding, vivid, warm, allusive, pictorial, revelatory |
| Antonyms: | expressionless, inexpressive, passive, undemonstrative |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | facile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easy; easily mastered |
| Synonyms: | accomplished, adept, adroit, apparent, articulate, breeze, child's play, cursory, deft, dexterous, easy as pie*, effortless, fast talk, flip*, fluent, glib, hasty, light, obvious, picnic*, practiced, proficient, pushover*, quick, ready, shallow, simple, skillful, slick*, smooth, superficial, uncomplicated, untroublesome, voluble |
| Antonyms: | arduous, complicated, confusing, difficult, hard, involved, laborious, profound |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | glib |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slick, smooth-talking |
| Synonyms: | artful, articulate, easy, eloquent, facile, flip, fluent, garrulous, insincere, loquacious, plausible, quick, ready, silver-tongued*, slippery*, suave, talkative, urbane, vocal, voluble, fast-talking, hot-air, smooth operator, smooth-spoken*, smooth-tongued, vocative |
| Antonyms: | inarticulate, quiet, tongue-tied, uncommunicative, stuttering |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | integrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mix, merge |
| Synonyms: | accommodate, amalgamate, arrange, articulate, assimilate, associate, attune, blend, coalesce, combine, compact, concentrate, conform, consolidate, coordinate, desegregate, embody, fuse, get together, harmonize, incorporate, join, knit, link, mesh, orchestrate, organize, proportion, reconcile, synthesize, systematize, tune, unify, unite, wed, come together, concatenate, conjoin, interface, intermix, meld with, reconciliate, symphonize, throw in together |
| Antonyms: | divide, separate |
| Main Entry: | oral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spoken |
| Synonyms: | articulate, phonetic, related, said, unwritten, uttered, verbal, vocal, voiced, ejaculatory, lingual, narrated, phonated, phonic, recounted, sonant, sounded, told, viva voce, word-of-mouth |
| Antonyms: | printed, written |
| Main Entry: | rhetorical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wordy; flowery in speech |
| Synonyms: | articulate, aureate, bombastic, declamatory, eloquent, exaggerated, flamboyant, flashy*, florid, fluent, glib*, grand, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, imposing, inflated, magniloquent, mouthy, oratorical, ornate, ostentatious, overblown, overdone, overwrought, pompous, pretentious, showy, silver-tongued, sonorous, stilted, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid, verbose, vocal, voluble, windy*, embellished, euphuistic, hyperbolic |
| Antonyms: | concise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spoken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | by word of mouth |
| Synonyms: | announced, articulate, mentioned, oral, phonetic, said, traditional, unwritten, uttered, verbal, voiced, communicated, expressed, lingual, phonic, put into words, sonant, told, viva voce |
| Antonyms: | heard, written |
| Main Entry: | state |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | declare, assert |
| Synonyms: | affirm, air, articulate, asseverate, aver, bring out, come out with, deliver, describe, elucidate, enumerate, enunciate, explain, expound, express, give, interpret, narrate, pitch, present, pronounce, put, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, report, say, speak, specify, spiel*, tell, throw out*, utter, vent, ventilate, voice, chime in*, enounce, give blow-by-blow, give rundown, propound, set forth |
| Antonyms: | ask, question |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | talkative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excessively communicative |
| Synonyms: | articulate, chatty*, effusive, eloquent, fluent, gabby*, garrulous, glib, long-winded*, loquacious, loudmouthed*, mouthy*, prolix, slick*, smooth*, verbal, verbose, vocal, voluble, windy*, wordy, big-mouthed, chattering, full of hot air, gossipy, loose-lipped, multiloquent, rattling, talky |
| Antonyms: | quiet, reserved, silent, uncommunicative |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | utter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | say, reveal |
| Synonyms: | affirm, air, announce, articulate, assert, asseverate, blurt, bring out, chime, chin*, come out with*, declaim, declare, deliver, disclose, divulge, ejaculate, enunciate, exclaim, express, go, jaw*, lip*, modulate, mouth*, mutter, proclaim, promulgate, pronounce, publish, recite, shout, speak, spiel*, state, talk, throw out, verbalize, vocalize, voice, whisper, give words to, make known, put into words |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | verbalize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speak |
| Synonyms: | articulate, blab*, break silence, chat, communicate, converse, enunciate, express, gab*, make known, mouth, mumble, open one's mouth, pronounce, put into words, rap*, say, shout, sound, state, talk, tell, utter, vocalize, voice, whisper, yak*, yammer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | voice |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | express opinion; put into words |
| Synonyms: | air, announce, articulate, assert, come out with*, cry, declare, deliver, divulge, emphasize, enunciate, modulate, present, proclaim, pronounce, put, recount, say, sound, speak, talk, tell, utter, vent, verbalize, vocalize, give expression, give utterance, inflect, intonate |
| Antonyms: | be quiet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | voluble |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | talkative |
| Synonyms: | articulate, chatty*, fluent, gabby, garrulous, long-winded*, loquacious, mouthy*, prolix, rambling, slick*, smooth*, verbal, windy*, wordy, bigmouthed, chattering, full of hot air, multiloquent, running on, talky |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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