Word Meanings - MISSPEAK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To err in speaking.
Related words: (words related to MISSPEAK)
- 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 - SPEAKING
1. Uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a speaking animal; a speaking tube. 2. Seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a speaking likeness. A speaking acquaintance, a slight acquaintance with a person, or one which - SPEAK
specan, sprecan; akin to OF.ries. spreka, D. spreken, OS. spreken, G. sprechen, OHG. sprehhan, and perhaps to Skr. sphurj to crackle, to 1. To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be - SPEAKABLE
1. Capable of being spoken; fit to be spoken. Ascham. 2. Able to speak. Milton. - 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. - FORESPEAKING
A prediction; also, a preface. Camden. Huloet. - 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. - FORESPEAK
See FORSPEAK - UNSPEAKABLE
Not speakable; incapable of being uttered or adequately described; inexpressible; unutterable; ineffable; as, unspeakable grief or rage. -- Un*speak"a*bly, adv. Ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. 1 Pet. i. 8. - RESPEAK
1. To speak or utter again. 2. To answer; to echo. Shak. - MISSPEAK
To err in speaking. - OVERSPEAK
To exceed in speaking; to speak too much; to use too many words.