ARTICULATE
Definition:
- [verb] provide with a joint; "the carpenter jointed two pieces of wood"
Synonyms: joint
- [verb] put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees"
Synonyms: give voice, formulate, word, phrase
- [verb] speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?"
Synonyms: pronounce, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
- [verb] express or state clearly
Synonyms: enunciate, vocalize, vocalise
- [adjective] expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language; "articulate speech"; "an articulate orator"; "articulate beings"
- [adjective] consisting of segments held together by joints
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Related Words:
- ask
- lexicalize, lexicalise
- dogmatize, dogmatise
- formularize, formularise
- frame, redact, cast, put, couch
- twang
- devoice
- raise
- lilt
- palatalize, palatalise
- nasalize, nasalise
- mispronounce
- aspirate
- voice, sound, vocalize, vocalise
- retroflex
- subvocalize, subvocalise
- syllabize, syllabise
- drawl
- round, labialize, labialise
- lisp
- stress, accent, accentuate
- vocalize, vocalise, vowelize, vowelise
- click
- trill
- sibilate
- flap
- explode
- roll
