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articulate - 20 thesaurus results
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
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
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: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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