Word Meanings - EXCLAMATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief. (more info) 1. A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out,

Additional info about word: EXCLAMATION

A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief. (more info) 1. A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc. Exclamations against abuses in the church. Hooker. Thus will I drown your exclamations. Shak. A festive exclamation not unsuited to the occasion. Trench.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXCLAMATION)

• Ejaculation
• Exclamation
• utterance
• cry
• Shout
• uproar
• clamor
• vociferation

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXCLAMATION)

• Be silent
• speak low

Related words: (words related to EXCLAMATION)

• SHOUTER
  One who shouts.
• CLAMOROUS
  Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness,
• UPROARIOUS
  Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ness, n.
• UPROAR
  Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor. But the Jews which believed not, . . . set all the city on an uproar. Acts xvii. 5. (more info) uppror; D. op up + roeren to stir; akin to AS. hr to stir, hr stirring,
• EXCLAMATION
  A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief. (more info) 1. A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out,
• SHOUT
  To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc. Shouting of the men and women eke. Chaucer. They shouted thrice: what was the last cry for Shak. To shout at, to utter shouts
• SPEAKERSHIP
  The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
• SPEAKER
  1. One who speaks. Specifically: One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides
• SILENTIARY
  One appointed to keep silence and order in court; also, one sworn not to divulge secre
• SILENT
  Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable." 5. Having no effect; not operating; inefficient. Cause . . . silent, virtueless, and dead. Sir W. Raleigh. Silent partner. See Dormant partner, under Dormant. Syn. -- Mute;
• SILENTIOUS
  Habitually silent; taciturn; reticent.
• EJACULATION
  The act of ejecting or suddenly throwing, as a fluid from a duct. (more info) 1. The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight. "An ejaculation or irradiation of the eye." Bacon. 2. The uttering of a short,
• SILENTNESS
  State of being silent; silence.
• SPEAK
  1. To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings. They sat down with him upn ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him. Job. ii. 13. 2. To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell;
• VOCIFERATION
  The act of vociferating; violent outcry; vehement utterance of the voice. Violent gesture and vociferation naturally shake the hearts of the ignorant. Spectator. Plaintive strains succeeding the vociferations of emotion or of pain. Byron.
• CLAMORER
  One who clamors.
• SPEAKING
  1. The act of uttering words. 2. Public declamation; oratory.
• CLAMOR
  1. A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation. Shak. 2. Any loud and continued noise. Addison. 3. A continued expression of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry. Macaulay. Syn. -- Outcry; exclamation;
• UTTERANCE
  1. The act of uttering. Specifically: -- Sale by offering to the public. Bacon. Putting in circulation; as, the utterance of false coin, or of forged notes. Vocal expression; articulation; speech. At length gave utterance to these words. Milton.
• SILENTLY
  In a silent manner.
• BESPEAKER
  One who bespeaks.
• OUTSPEAK
  1. To exceed in speaking. 2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. 3. To express more than. Shak.
• UNBESPEAK
  To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel. Pepys.
• FORSPEAK
  1. To forbid; to prohibit. Shak. 2. To bewitch. Drayton.
• WASHOUT
  The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away.
• NEISHOUT
  The mahogany-like wood of the South African tree Pteroxylon utile, the sawdust of which causes violent sneezing (whence the name). Also called sneezewood.
• FORESPEAKING
  A prediction; also, a preface. Camden. Huloet.
• UNSHOUT
  To recall what is done by shouting. Shak.
• UNSPEAK
  To retract, as what has been spoken; to recant; to unsay. Shak.
• BESPEAK
  besprecan, to speak to, accuse; pref. be- + sprecan to speak. See 1. To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor. Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was
• HOME-SPEAKING
  Direct, forcible, and effective speaking. Milton.