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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | by word of mouth |
| Synonyms: | announced, articulate, communicated, expressed, lingual, mentioned, oral, phonetic, phonic, put into words, said, sonant, told, traditional, unwritten, uttered, verbal, viva voce, voiced |
| Antonyms: | heard, written |
| Main Entry: | speak |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk |
| Synonyms: | allege, articulate, assert, aver, blab, break silence, chat, chew*, communicate, converse, convey, declare, deliver, descant, discourse, drawl, enunciate, expatiate, express, gab, gas*, go*, jaw, lip, make known, make public, modulate, mouth, mumble, murmur, mutter, open one's mouth, perorate, pop off, pronounce, put into words, rap, say, shout, sound, speak one's piece, spiel*, spill, state, tell, utter, verbalize, vocalize, voice, whisper, yak, yakkety-yak, yammer |
| Notes: | say, speak, and tell are near synonyms, but say is usually followed by a statement or words actually uttered |
| Antonyms: | be quiet, listen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | unwritten |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | understood |
| Synonyms: | accepted, conventional, customary, oral, spoken, tacit, traditional, unformulated, unrecorded, unsaid, verbal, vocal, word-of-mouth |
| Antonyms: | explained, explicated, stated, written |
| Main Entry: | orally |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | verbally |
| Synonyms: | by work of mouth, personally, spoken, viva voce |
| Main Entry: | said |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pronounced |
| Synonyms: | aforementioned, aforesaid, forenamed, spoken |
| Main Entry: | voiced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vocal |
| Synonyms: | articulate, oral, spoken |
| Main Entry: | phonetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pertaining to speech sounds |
| Synonyms: | oral, spoken, vocal, voiced |
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