Word Meanings - SPEECHFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.

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• SPEECHLESS
  1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
• SPEECHIFYING
  The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold.
• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• SPEECHFUL
  Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.
• SPEECHIFY
  To make a speech; to harangue.
• LOQUACIOUSNESS
  Loquacity.
• LOQUACIOUS
  speak; cf. Gr. 1. Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous. Loquacious, brawling, ever in the wrong. Dryden. 2. Speaking; expressive. J. Philips. 3. Apt to blab and disclose secrets. Syn. -- Garrulous; talkative. See Garrulous.
• SPEECHIFICATION
  The act of speechifying.
• LOQUACIOUSLY
  In a loquacious manner.
• VOLUBLE
  Having the power or habit of turning or twining; as, the voluble stem of hop plants. Voluble stem , a stem that climbs by winding, or twining, round another body. -- Vol"u*ble*ness, n. -- Vol"u*bly, adv. (more info) turn round; akin to Gr. welle
• SPEECHMAKER
  One who makes speeches; one accustomed to speak in a public assembly.
• SPEECH
  speak; akin to D. spraak speech, OHG. sprahha, G. sprache, Sw. spr, 1. The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking. There is none comparable to the
• SPEECHIFIER
  One who makes a speech or speeches; an orator; a declaimer. G. Eliot.
• SPEECHING
  The act of making a speech.
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
• SWORDSMAN
  1. A soldier; a fighting man. 2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
• VISIBLE SPEECH
  A system of characters invented by Prof. Alexander Melville Bell to represent all sounds that may be uttered by the speech organs, and intended to be suggestive of the position of the organs of speech in uttering them.
• IRREVOLUBLE
  That has no finite period of revolution; not revolving. The dateless and irrevocable circle of eternity. Milton.
• REVOLUBLE
  Capable of revolving; rotatory; revolving. Us, then, to whom the thrice three year Hath filled his revoluble orb since our arrival here, I blame not. Chapman.
• INTERSPEECH
  A speech interposed between others. Blount.
• FORESPEECH
  A preface. Sherwood.
• BY-SPEECH
  An incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point. "To quote by-speeches." Hooker.