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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lecture, moralize |
| Synonyms: | admonish, advocate, blow, exhort, get on a soapbox, harangue, pile it on, preachify, sermonize, talk big, urge |
| Main Entry: | rant |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | yell, rave |
| Synonyms: | bellow, bloviate, blow one's top, bluster, carry on, clamor, cry, declaim, fume, harangue, mouth, objurgate, orate, perorate, rage, rail, roar, scold, shout, sizzle, soapbox, sound off, spiel*, spout, storm*, stump, take on*, vociferate |
| Antonyms: | be quiet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk endlessly |
| Synonyms: | babble, be delirious, bloviate, blow one's top, carry on*, come unglued, declaim, flip one's lid, freak out, fume, gabble, go ape, go bananas, go crazy, go mad, harangue, jabber, make a to-do, mouth, orate, perorate, prate, prattle, rage, rail, rant, rattle on, roar, run amuck, splutter, storm, talk wildly, thunder, wander |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sermon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instructive speech with a moral |
| Synonyms: | address, advice, discourse, doctrine, exhortation, harangue, homily, lecture, lesson, moralism, pastoral, preach, preaching, preachment, tirade |
| Main Entry: | speak |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | address; give a lecture |
| Synonyms: | argue, declaim, descant, discourse, get across, harangue, hold forth, orate, pitch, plead, prelect, recite, sermonize, spiel*, spout, stump, talk |
| Notes: | say, speak, and tell are near synonyms, but say is usually followed by a statement or words actually uttered |
| Antonyms: | listen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | speech |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | formal talk to audience |
| Synonyms: | address, allocution, appeal, bombast, chalk talk, commentary, debate, declamation, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, eulogy, exhortation, harangue, homily, invocation, keynote, lecture, opus, oration, oratory, panegyric, paper, parlance, parley, pep talk, pitch, prelection, recitation, rhetoric, salutation, sermon, spiel*, stump, tirade, valedictory |
| Antonyms: | listening |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spout |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk forcefully |
| Synonyms: | boast, brag, chatter, declaim, expatiate, go on, gush, harangue, hold forth, orate, pontificate, ramble, rant, sermonize, shoot off one's mouth, speechify, spellbind, spiel, vapor, yell |
| Antonyms: | be quiet |
| Main Entry: | talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speech, address to group |
| Synonyms: | allocution, chalk talk, declamation, descant, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, epilogue, exhortation, expatiation, harangue, homily, lecture, monologue, oration, peroration, prelection, recitation, screed, sermon, spiel* |
| Antonyms: | listening |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | talk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | address group |
| Synonyms: | accost, deliver a speech, discourse, give a talk, give speech, harangue, hold forth, induce, influence, lecture, orate, persuade, pitch, prelect, sermonize, speak, spiel*, spout, stump, sway* |
| Antonyms: | listen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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