| 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: | 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: | hypocritical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful, pretending |
Synonyms: |
affected, artificial, assuming, bland, canting, captious, caviling, deceptive, deluding, dissembling, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, false, feigning, fishy, fraudulent, glib, hollow, insincere, jivey, left-handed, lying, moralistic, oily, pharisaical, phony, pietistic, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, snide, specious, spurious, two-faced, unctuous, unnatural, unreliable |
Antonyms: |
actual, authentic, forthright, honest, just, real, reliable, righteous, sincere, truthful, upright |
| Main Entry: | slick |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | smart, clever |
Synonyms: |
adroit, cagey, canny, deft, dextrous, foxy, glib, knowing, meretricious, plausible, professional, quick, sharp, shrewd, skillful, sly, smooth, smooth-spoken, sophisticated, specious, streetwise, unctuous, urbane, wise |
Antonyms: |
amateurish, clumsy, stupid, unclever, unintelligent |
| Main Entry: | vocal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extroverted about opinion |
Synonyms: |
articulate, blunt, clamorous, eloquent, expressive, facile, fluent, forthright, frank, free, free-spoken, glib, noisy, outspoken, plainspoken, round, smooth-spoken, stentorian, strident, venting, vociferous |
Antonyms: |
introverted, modest, quiet, shy |
| Main Entry: | Pecksniffian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hypocritical |
Synonyms: |
affected, artificial, assuming, bland, canting, captious, caviling, deceptive, deluding, dissembling, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, false, feigning, fishy, fraudulent, glib, hollow, insincere, jivey, left-handed, lying, moralistic, oily, pharisaic, pharisaical, phony*, pietistic, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, smooth*, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, snide, specious, spurious, two-faced, unctuous, unnatural, unreliable |
| Main Entry: | pharisaic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hypocritical |
Synonyms: |
Pecksniffian, affected, artificial, assuming, bland, canting, captious, caviling, deceptive, deluding, dissembling, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, false, feigning, fishy, fraudulent, glib, hollow, insincere, jivey, left-handed, lying, moralistic, oily, pharisaical, phony*, pietistic, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, smooth*, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, snide, specious, spurious, two-faced, unctuous, unnatural, unreliable |
| Main Entry: | pharisaical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hypocritical |
Synonyms: |
Pecksniffian, affected, artificial, assuming, bland, canting, captious, caviling, deceptive, deluding, dissembling, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, false, feigning, fishy, fraudulent, glib, hollow, insincere, jivey, left-handed, lying, moralistic, oily, pharisaic, phony*, pietistic, pious, sanctimonious, self-righteous, smooth*, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, snide, specious, spurious, two-faced, unctuous, unnatural, unreliable |
| 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 |