Synonyms for speak
Definitions
- v. 1
To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
You're speaking too fast.
Related words
- Word family
- speakable speaker speakeasy speech
- Phrases
- speak ill of speak out speak up speak well of speak for speak to so to speak speak volumes
- Is a kind of
- communicate
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To speak is to give articulate utterance even to a single word; the officer speaks the word of command, but does not talk it. To speak is also to utter words with the ordinary intonation, as distinguished from singing.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- tell Please tell me the closest station to your office.
- talk You shouldn't talk back to your parents like that.
- utter Everything you've told me so far was an utter lie.
- converse Tom claims he can converse with plants and animals.
- read Written in easy English, the book is easy to read.
- discuss I have a lot of friends I can discuss things with.
By length
- 3 letters
- say1
- 4 letters
- tell1, read1, talk1, pass1, hail1, rant1
- 5 letters
- sound1, mouth1, utter2, spout1
- 6 letters
- preach1, accost2
- 7 letters
- address2, express2, discuss2, lecture2, declare2, chatter2, descant
- 8 letters
- announce2, converse2, proclaim2
- 9 letters
- discourse2, pronounce2, verbalize3, enunciate4, verbalise, expatiate
- 10 letters
- articulate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (utter2 = 2 syllables).