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Synonyms for speech
noun talk

dialogue
tone
language
discussion
conversation
voice
expression
enunciation
communication
prose

jargon
diction
intercourse
accent
idiom
pronunciation
palaver
speaking
dialect
articulation

voicing
spiel
vocalization
prattle
parlance
elocution
locution
vernacular
verbalization
tongue

utterance
lingo
double talk
mother tongue
doublespeak
vocalizing
expressing
native tongue
oral communication
vocal expression

Antonyms for speech

quiet
silence

standard
listening

Synonyms
noun formal talk to audience

rhetoric
commentary
paper
address
lecture
appeal
debate
sermon
stump
disquisition

pitch
salutation
tirade
oratory
parley
valedictory
exhortation
opus
discourse
oration

invocation
diatribe
keynote
bombast
dissertation
eulogy
spiel
recitation
parlance
harangue

homily
panegyric
declamation
allocution
pep talk
prelection
chalk talk

Antonyms

quiet

silence

listening

Concept Thesaurus for word speech
2. Conventional means; spoken language
Synonyms – noun

speech
parlance
word of mouth
effusion.
say
sermon
speechifying
salutatory [U.S.]
rhetoric
burst of eloquence
command of language
usus loquendi.
interlocutor
oratrix
rhetorician
patterer

faculty of speech
verbal intercourse
parole
oration
speech
tirade
soliloquy
screed: valedictory [U.S.]. oratory
declamation
facundity
copia verborum
speaker
mouthpiece
oratress
stump orator
improvisatore.

locution
prolation
palaver
recitation
lecture
formal speech
allocution
elocution
grandiloquence
flow of words
power of speech
spokesman
Hermes
Demosthenes
platform orator

talk
oral communication
prattle
delivery
harangue
peroration
interlocution
eloquence
multiloquence
command of words
gift of the gab
prolocutor
orator
Cicero
speechmaker

Synonyms – verbs

speak of
deliver
breathe
blurt out
break silence
raise one’s voice
outspeak
deliver a speech
stump
sermonize
say one’s say
vent one’s fury
go on the stump
speak to
have the gift of the gab pass one’s lips

say
give utterance to
let fall
have on one’s lips
open one’s lips
give the tongue
put in a word or two.
speechify
flourish
discourse
spout
vent one’s rage
take the stump [U.S.].
talk together
escape one’s lips

utter
utter forth
come out with
have at the end of one’s tongue
open one’s mouth
wag the tongue
hold forth
harangue
recite
be on one’s legs
rant
expatiate (speak at length)
soliloquize
be eloquent
fall from the lips

pronounce
pour forth
rap out
have at the tip of one’s tongue.
lift one’s voice
talk
make a speech
declaim
lecture
have one’s say
rave
speak one’s mind
tell (inform)
have a tongue in one’s head
fall from the mouth.

Synonyms – adjectives

speaking
phonetic
eloquent
declamatory
nuncupative

spoken
not written
elocutionary
grandiloquent
Tullian.

oral
unwritten
oratorical
talkative

lingual
outspoken
rhetorical
Ciceronian

Synonyms – phrases
quoth he, said he; “action is eloquence” [Coriolanus]; “pour the full tide of eloquence along” [Pope]; “she speaks poignards and every word stabs” [Much Ado About Nothing]; “speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken [G. Eliot]; “to try thy eloquence now ’tis time”
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Other adjectives related to speech

affected
antithetical
breviloquent
communicative
diversiloquent
eloquent
expressive
flaming
glossal
grandiose
lingual
mendaciloquent
multiloquent
oral
parrhesiastic
phemic
platitudinarian
published
sententious
slangous
somniloquacious
spoken
stuttering
telepheme
unlarded
veriloquent

alieniloquent
babblative
chrysostomatic
concionative
doctiloquent
enunciative
facund
flexiloquent
glossoepiglottic
high
longiloquent
meropic
not written
oratorical
peripatetic
phonetic
pleniloquent
renable
sesquipedalian
soliloquacious
sonorous
stammering
suaviloquent
totutiloquent
unwritten

alliterative
blandiloquent
colloquial
declamatory
drawling
euphuistic
fallaciloquent
frothy
gnomologic
inaniloquent
magniloquent
mincing
nuncupatory
orotund
periphrastic
phoniatric
polyloquent
rhetorical
sialoquent
soliloqual
spadish
stilted
talkable
tremulous
vaniloquent

altiloquent
bombastic
communicate
demegoric
elocutionary
explicit
fatiloquent
fustian
grandiloquent
johnsonian
melliloquent
mouthy
omniloquent
outspoken
phatic
plain
procacious
sanctiloquent
singsong
soliloquizing
speaking
stultiloquent
talkative
tub
ventose

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