articulateadjective
uk/ɑːˈtɪk.jə.lət/us/ɑːrˈtɪk.jə.lət/able to express thoughts and feelings easily and clearly, or showing this quality:
an intelligent and highly articulate young woman
She gave a witty, entertaining, and articulate speech.
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Talkative and eloquent
- chatterbox
- communicative
- cry
- eloquent
- expansive
- expressive
- garrulous
- gift
- gossip
- in full cry idiom
- lucid
- mouth
- oratory
- silver-tongued
- smooth
- talkative
- the gift of the gab idiom
- turn of phrase
- voluble
- well turned
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articulately
adverb uk/ɑːˈtɪk.jə.lət.li/us/ɑːrˈtɪk.jə.lət.li/
articulateness
noun [ U ] uk/ɑːˈtɪk.jə.lət.nəs/us/ɑːrˈtɪk.jə.lət.nəs/also articulacy, uk/-lə.si/us
articulateverb [ T ]
uk/ɑːˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/us/ɑːrˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/formalarticulate verb [ T ] (EXPRESS IN WORDS)
to express in words:
I found myself unable to articulate my feelings.
Many people are opposed to the new law, but have had no opportunity to articulate their opposition.
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Saying & uttering
- (your) every word idiom
- add
- come
- come out with sth
- every
- fall
- find your voice idiom
- floor
- get sth in
- in words of one syllable idiom
- in your own words idiom
- misspeak
- mouth
- phrase
- speak
- string
- text
- think
- use
- utterance
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articulate verb [ T ] (PRONOUNCE)
to pronounce:
When children first learn to talk, there are some sounds that they find difficult to articulate.
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Ways of speaking
- accent
- accentuate
- aitch
- asperity
- BBC English
- cut glass
- get your tongue around/round sth idiom
- intone
- lenis
- modulate
- monotone
- plummy
- pragmatics
- singsong
- soft-spoken
- sotto voce
- speech therapy
- spoken
- stumble
- trip off the tongue idiom
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articulate verb [ T ] (FORM A JOINT)
specialized medical to connect two bones by forming a joint
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Connecting and combining
- abut
- adjoin
- aggregate
- allied
- amalgamate
- assemblage
- bind
- conjunction
- desegregate
- dovetail
- eclectic
- entwine
- fuse
- fusion
- linkage
- lump sb/sth together
- marriage
- marry
- meld
- merge
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