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talking - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | talking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | speaking |
| Synonyms: | eloquent, ranting, repeating, articulating, chattering, conversing, discussing, echoing, enunciating, expressing, mouthing, orating, pronouncing, spouting, verbalizing, vocalizing |
| Antonyms: | hearing, listening, witnessing |
| Main Entry: | talk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce words; inform |
| Synonyms: | articulate, babble, broach, chant, chat, chatter, comment on, communicate, confess, converse, describe, divulge, drawl, drone, express, flap one's tongue, gab, gabble*, give voice to, gossip, influence, intone, notify, palaver, parley, patter, persuade, prate, prattle, pronounce, reveal, rhapsodize, run on*, say, sing*, soliloquize, speak, spill the beans*, spout, squeak*, squeal*, talk one's leg off, tell, tell all, use, utter, ventriloquize, verbalize, voice, yak* |
| Antonyms: | listen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | talk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discuss with another |
| Synonyms: | argue, canvass, chew*, commune, confer, confide, consult, contact, deliberate, dialogue, exchange, huddle*, interact, interview, negotiate, network*, palaver, parley, reason, relate, touch*, touch base*, vent, visit, be in contact, carry on conversation, collogue, confabulate, engage in conversation, go into a huddle, groupthink, have a meet, hold discussion, interface, join in conversation, keep in touch, reach out, thrash out* |
| Antonyms: | refrain, refuse |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | talk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | address group |
| Synonyms: | accost, discourse, harangue, induce, influence, lecture, orate, persuade, pitch, speak, spiel*, spout*, stump*, sway*, deliver a speech, give a talk, give speech, hold forth, prelect, sermonize |
| Antonyms: | listen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | explanation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarification; reason |
| Synonyms: | account, annotation, answer, breakdown, brief, cause, comment, commentary, confession, definition, demonstration, description, details, display, elucidation, evidence, example, excuse, exposition, expression, gloss, history, illustration, information, interpretation, justification, meaning, mitigation, motive, narration, note, recital, rendition, report, resolution, sense, showing, significance, specification, statement, story, summary, tale, talking, telling, vindication, writing, explication |
| Antonyms: | complication |
| Main Entry: | conferring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | holding a conference |
| Synonyms: | meeting, talking, consulting, conversing, counseling, deliberating, discussing |
| Main Entry: | articulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clear, coherent speech |
| Synonyms: | delivery, diction, expression, pronunciation, saying, speaking, statement, talking, utterance, enunciation, verbalization, vocalization, voicing |
| Antonyms: | mispronunciation |
| Main Entry: | communication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving, exchanging information, ideas |
| Synonyms: | advice, articulation, assertion, communion, connection, contact, conversation, converse, correspondence, corresponding, declaration, delivery, dissemination, elucidation, expression, intelligence, interchange, intercourse, link, mention, publication, reading, reception, revelation, talk, talking, telling, transfer, transmission, utterance, writing, advisement, announcing, disclosing, intercommunication, making known, notifying, translating |
| Antonyms: | concealment, cover, quiet, suppression, withholding |
| Main Entry: | address |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speak to a formal gathering |
| Synonyms: | approach, bespeak, call, discourse, discuss, greet, hail, lecture, orate, pitch, pontificate, spiel*, spout, stump*, talk, deliver speech, deliver talk, get on a soapbox, give speech, give talk, memorialize, root for, sermonize, take the floor |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | admit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | confess, acknowledge |
| Synonyms: | accept, accord, acquiesce, adopt, affirm, agree, allow, approve, avow, bare, bring to light*, communicate, concede, concur, confide, confirm, consent, cop a plea, credit, declare, disclose, divulge, enumerate, expose, grant, indicate, let, let on, narrate, number, own, permit, proclaim, profess, recite, recognize, relate, reveal, spill*, talk, tell, tolerate, uncover, unveil, yield, go into details, make known, open up, own up, subscribe to |
| Notes: | with admit, the acknowledgment of something being true applies to one's own sphere of conduct, whereas with concede the acknowledgment applies to another's; admit implies reluctance to disclose, grant, or concede and refers usually to facts rather than their implications |
| Antonyms: | confute, deny, dispute, dissent, gainsay, refuse |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | communicate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mutually exchange information |
| Synonyms: | answer, buzz, cable, chat, confer, converse, correspond, discourse, hear from, reach, reply, talk, telephone, wire, write, associate with, be close to, be in touch, be near, commune with, confabulate, drop a line, drop a note, establish contact, get on the horn, give a call, give a ring, have confidence of |
| Main Entry: | confer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discuss, deliberate |
| Synonyms: | advise, argue, bargain, blitz*, brainstorm*, breeze*, collogue, confab, confabulate, consult, converse, deal, debate, discourse, flap*, gab*, get heads together, give meeting, groupthink, huddle, jaw, kick ideas around, negotiate, parley, pick one's brain, powwow*, speak, talk, toss ideas around, treat |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contact |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | communicate with |
| Synonyms: | approach, buzz*, call, connect, get, interact, network*, reach, relate, talk, telephone, touch base*, visit, be in touch with, check with, get ahold of, get in touch with, interface, phone, reach out, speak to, write to |
| Antonyms: | avoid |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dictate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | read out for the record |
| Synonyms: | compose, deliver, emit, formulate, interview, orate, say, speak, talk, transmit, utter, verbalize, draft correspondence, give account, give forth, prepare draft |
| 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: | gossip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk about others; spread rumors |
| Synonyms: | babble, bad-mouth*, bend one's ear, blab, blather, blether, chat, chatter, cut to pieces, cut up*, dish, hint, imply, insinuate, intimate, jaw*, prate, prattle, rattle on, repeat, report, rumor, schmoose, spill the beans*, spread*, suggest, talk, talk idly, tattle, tell secrets, tell tales, wiggle-waggle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | interview |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ask questions and evaluate |
| Synonyms: | consult, converse, examine, interrogate, question, quiz, talk, get for the record, get opinion, give oral examination, hold inquiry, sound out, talk to |
| Main Entry: | jabber |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk incessantly and trivially |
| Synonyms: | babble, blather*, chatter, drivel, gab, jaw, mumble, murmur, mutter, prate, ramble, shoot the breeze*, talk, tattle, utter, yak, yap, go on and on, run off at mouth |
| Antonyms: | be silent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lecture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give a lesson, speech |
| Synonyms: | address, declaim, deliver, discourse, expound, harangue, orate, recite, speak, spiel*, spout, talk, teach, get on a soapbox, give a talk, hold forth, prelect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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