| Main Entry: | silver-tongued |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eloquent |
Synonyms: |
fluent, glib, oratorical |
| Main Entry: | eloquent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having a skillful way with words |
Synonyms: |
affecting, ardent, articulate, expressive, facund, fervent, fervid, fluent, forceful, glib, grandiloquent, graphic, impassioned, impressive, indicative, magniloquent, meaningful, moving, outspoken, passionate, persuasive, poignant, potent, powerful, revealing, rhetorical, sententious, significant, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken, stirring, suggestive, telling, touching, vivid, vocal, voluble, well-expressed |
Antonyms: |
dull, inarticulate |
| Main Entry: | expressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | telling, revealing |
Synonyms: |
alive, allusive, articulate, artistic, brilliant, colorful, demonstrative, dramatic, eloquent, emphatic, energetic, forcible, graphic, indicative, ingenious, lively, masterly, meaningful, mobile, moving, passionate, pathetic, pictorial, picturesque, poignant, pointed, pregnant, representative, responsive, revelatory, showy, significant, silver-tongued, spirited, stimulating, stirring, striking, strong, suggestive, sympathetic, tender, thoughtful, touching, understanding, vivid, warm |
Antonyms: |
expressionless, inexpressive, passive, undemonstrative |
| Main Entry: | fluent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | articulate |
Synonyms: |
chatty, cogent, copious, cursive, declamatory, disputatious, easy, effortless, effusive, eloquent, facile, flowing, garrulous, glib, liquid, loquacious, mellifluent, mellifluous, natural, persuasive, prompt, quick, ready, running, silver-tongued, smooth, smooth-spoken, talkative, verbose, vocal, voluble, well-versed, wordy |
Antonyms: |
effortful, hesitant, inarticulate, unfluent, unprepared |
| Main Entry: | glib |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slick, smooth-talking |
Synonyms: |
artful, articulate, easy, eloquent, facile, fast-talking, flip, fluent, garrulous, hot-air, insincere, loquacious, plausible, quick, ready, silver-tongued, slippery*, smooth operator, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, suave, talkative, urbane, vocal, vocative, voluble |
Antonyms: |
inarticulate, quiet, stuttering, tongue-tied, uncommunicative |
| Main Entry: | rhetorical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wordy; flowery in speech |
Synonyms: |
articulate, aureate, bombastic, declamatory, eloquent, embellished, euphuistic, exaggerated, flamboyant, flashy*, florid, fluent, glib*, grand, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, hyperbolic, 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 |
Antonyms: |
concise |
| Main Entry: | sweet |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nice-sounding |
Synonyms: |
dulcet, euphonic, euphonious, harmonious, mellifluous, mellow, melodic, melodious, musical, orotund, rich, rotund, silver-tongued, silvery, smooth, soft, sonorous, soothing, sweet-sounding, tuneful |
Antonyms: |
cacophonous, discordant, ugly |
| Main Entry: | facund |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eloquent |
Synonyms: |
articulate, coherent, expressive, fluent, impassioned, silver-tongued, well-expressed, well-spoken |
| Main Entry: | smooth-tongued |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | glib |
Synonyms: |
artful, articulate, easy, eloquent, facile, fast-talking, flip*, fluent, garrulous, hot-air, insincere, loquacious, plausible, quick*, ready, silver-tongued, slick*, slippery*, smooth operator, smooth-spoken, suave, talkative, urbane, vocal, vocative, voluble |