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| Main Entry: | discourse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dialogue; dissertation |
| Synonyms: | address, article, chat, communication, conversation, converse, descant, discussion, disquisition, essay, homily, huddle, lecture, memoir, monograph, monologue, oration, paper, rhetoric, sermon, speaking, speech, talk, thesis, treatise, utterance, gabfest, tractate, verbalization |
| Antonyms: | quiet, silence |
| Main Entry: | discourse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discuss, speak about |
| Synonyms: | argue, chew*, comment, confer, converse, debate, declaim, descant, develop, dispute, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, explain, expound, harangue, lecture, modulate, orate, perorate, remark, talk, treat, voice, commentate, confab, dilate upon, dissert, dissertate, give a meeting, hold forth, sermonize |
| Antonyms: | be quiet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | colloquy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conversation, debate |
| Synonyms: | chat, chitchat, conference, converse, dialogue, discourse, discussion, flap*, huddle*, palaver, parley, powwow*, rap*, seminar, talk, buzz session, chinfest, clambake, colloquium, confab, confabulation, gab fest, gam, groupthink, rap session, talkfest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | commentary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | analysis |
| Synonyms: | annotation, appreciation, comment, consideration, criticism, critique, description, discourse, exegesis, explanation, exposition, gloss, narration, notes, observation, remark, review, treatise, obiter dictum, voice-over |
| Main Entry: | commune |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | communicate, experience with another |
| Synonyms: | confer, contemplate, converse, discourse, discuss, mediate, muse, parley, ponder, reflect, confide in |
| Main Entry: | converse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk |
| Synonyms: | chat, chitchat*, commune, confer, discourse, exchange, gab*, parley, rap*, speak, use, yak*, chew the fat, schmooze |
| Notes: | contrary describes something that contradicts a proposition, converse is used when the elements of a proposition are reversed, opposite pertains to that which is diametrically opposed to a proposition, and reverse can mean each of those |
| Antonyms: | be quiet, be silent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dialogue/dialog |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talk, exchange of ideas |
| Synonyms: | chat, colloquy, communication, conference, conversation, converse, discourse, discussion, parlance, parley, powwow, repartee, script, small talk*, confab, confabulation, duologue, interlocution, lines, remarks, sides |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | discussion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talk with another |
| Synonyms: | altercation, analysis, argument, canvass, colloquy, conference, consideration, consultation, contention, controversy, conversation, debate, deliberation, dialogue, discourse, disputation, dispute, dissertation, examination, exchange, huddle, interview, meet, meeting, powwow*, quarrel, review, scrutiny, symposium, ventilation, argumentation, confabulation, excursus, groupthink, wrangling |
| Antonyms: | quiet, silence |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dissertation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scholarly thesis |
| Synonyms: | commentary, critique, discourse, disputation, disquisition, essay, exposition, memoir, monograph, treatise, argumentation, tractate |
| Main Entry: | expound |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk about in great detail |
| Synonyms: | clarify, comment, construe, delineate, describe, discourse, elucidate, exemplify, explain, explicate, express, illustrate, interpret, present, spell out, state, unfold, enucleate, set forth |
| Main Entry: | harangue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | long lecture |
| Synonyms: | address, declamation, diatribe, discourse, exhortation, hassle, oration, philippic, sermon, speech, spiel*, tirade, chewing out, jeremiad, reading out, screed, spouting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | language |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | system of words for communication |
| Synonyms: | accent, argot, articulation, cant, communication, conversation, dialect, diction, dictionary, discourse, expression, gibberish, idiom, interchange, jargon, lexicon, palaver, parlance, patois, phraseology, prose, signal, slang, sound, speech, style, talk, terminology, tongue, utterance, vernacular, vocabulary, voice, word, wording, brogue, doublespeak, lingua franca, verbalization, vocalization |
| Main Entry: | literature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written matter, both fictional and nonfictional |
| Synonyms: | abstract, article, biography, brochure, comment, composition, critique, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, drama, essay, exposition, history, humanities, information, leaflet, lit, lore, novel, observation, pamphlet, paper, poetry, précis, prose, report, research, story, summary, theme, thesis, tract, treatise, treatment, belles-lettres, books, classics, findings, letters, literary works, writings, written work |
| Antonyms: | speech |
| Main Entry: | memoir |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | record of experiences |
| Synonyms: | account, anecdote, autobiography, biography, chronicle, diary, discourse, dissertation, essay, journal, life, life story, memory, monograph, narrative, note, recollection, register, reminiscence, thesis, treatise, annal, bio, confessions, tractate, transactions, vita |
| Main Entry: | monologue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speech by one person |
| Synonyms: | address, descant, discourse, disquisition, harangue, lecture, sermon, soliloquy, speech, talk, stand-up bit |
| Antonyms: | dialogue |
| Main Entry: | narrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | describe, detail |
| Synonyms: | characterize, chronicle, delineate, depict, descant, disclose, discourse, enumerate, expatiate, paint, picture, portray, proclaim, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, repeat, report, reveal, spin, state, tell, unfold, give an account of, hold forth, make known, set forth, tell a story |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide, suppress |
| Main Entry: | oration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speech |
| Synonyms: | address, declamation, discourse, harangue, homily, lecture, pep talk*, pitch*, sermon, spiel*, chalk talk, soapbox |
| Antonyms: | print, writing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | recitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reading to audience |
| Synonyms: | address, appeal, delivery, discourse, discussion, exercise, lecture, monologue, narration, oration, passage, performance, piece, proclamation, recital, rehearsal, report, selection, speaking, talk, telling, declaiming, discoursing, holding forth, narrating, playing, recounting, rendering, soliloquizing |
| Main Entry: | recite |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | read out loud; narrate |
| Synonyms: | account for, address, answer, chant, communicate, convey, declaim, delineate, deliver, describe, detail, discourse, dramatize, enact, enlarge, enumerate, expatiate, explain, impart, interpret, itemize, mention, parrot*, perform, picture, portray, quote, recapitulate, recount, rehearse, relate, render, repeat, reply, report, speak, state, tell, utter, give a report, give an account, give verbal account, hold forth, reel off, retell, soliloquize |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rhetoric |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wordiness; long speech |
| Synonyms: | address, balderdash*, big talk*, bombast, composition, discourse, elocution, eloquence, fustian, hot air*, hyperbole, magniloquence, oration, oratory, pomposity, rant, verbosity, flowery language, grandiloquence |
| Antonyms: | conciseness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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