What are some opposite words for Speech?
Antonyms for Speech
spitʃspeech
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term Speech.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
speech
Speech is the general word for utterance of thought in language. A speech may be the delivering of one's sentiments in the simplest way; an oration is an elaborate and prepared speech; a harangue is a vehement appeal to passion, or a speech that has something disputatious and combative in it. A discourse is a set speech on a definite subject, intended to convey instruction. Compare CONVERSATION; DICTION; LANGUAGE.
Antonyms:
hush, silence, speechlessness, stillness, taciturnitySynonyms:
address, address, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, harangue, language, oration, oratory, sermon, speaking, talk, utterance
Princeton's WordNet
address, speechnoun
the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience
"he listened to an address on minor Roman poets"
Synonyms:
computer address, spoken communication, savoir-faire, delivery, reference, manner of speaking, actor's line, talking to, speech communication, words, voice communication, oral communication, lecture, address, language, spoken language, destination, name and address, speechspeech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, language, voice communication, oral communicationnoun
(language) communication by word of mouth
"his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets"
Synonyms:
words, manner of speaking, spoken communication, terminology, delivery, linguistic process, actor's line, talking to, speech communication, lecture, voice communication, oral communication, lyric, linguistic communication, address, language, spoken language, nomenclature, speechspeechnoun
something spoken
"he could hear them uttering merry speeches"
Synonyms:
words, manner of speaking, talking to, lecture, delivery, spoken language, oral communication, actor's line, spoken communication, address, speech communication, language, voice communicationspeechnoun
the exchange of spoken words
"they were perfectly comfortable together without speech"
Synonyms:
words, manner of speaking, talking to, lecture, delivery, spoken language, oral communication, actor's line, spoken communication, address, speech communication, language, voice communicationmanner of speaking, speech, deliverynoun
your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
"his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"
Synonyms:
pitch, manner of speaking, oral communication, delivery, spoken communication, actor's line, talking to, speech communication, words, livery, voice communication, spoken language, obstetrical delivery, lecture, rescue, address, deliverance, language, legal transfer, bringing, speech, savinglecture, speech, talking tonoun
a lengthy rebuke
"a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to"
Synonyms:
manner of speaking, spoken communication, talk, delivery, lecturing, actor's line, talking to, speech communication, words, voice communication, oral communication, public lecture, lecture, address, language, spoken language, speechactor's line, speech, wordsnoun
words making up the dialogue of a play
"the actor forgot his speech"
Synonyms:
manner of speaking, spoken communication, wrangle, run-in, delivery, actor's line, talking to, speech communication, words, voice communication, oral communication, quarrel, lecture, dustup, address, row, language, lyric, spoken language, speechlanguage, speechnoun
the mental faculty or power of vocal communication
"language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals"
Synonyms:
nomenclature, spoken communication, terminology, delivery, linguistic process, actor's line, talking to, speech communication, words, voice communication, oral communication, lyric, linguistic communication, address, language, spoken language, manner of speaking, speech, lecture
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
speechadjective
Synonyms:
utterance, speaking, language, talk, conversation, parlance, words, tongue, dialect, patois, discourse, oration, address, plea, declamation, dissertation, epilogue, allocution, exhortation, disquisition, effusion, descant, harangue, diatribe, tirade, screed, rhapsody, philippic, invective, rant, soliloquy, monologue, dialogue, colloquy, trialogue, interlocution, improvisation, toast, equivocation, prevarication, quibbling, ambages, pseudology, amphibology, amphiboly, dilogyAssociated words:
extempore, extemporaneous, extemporize, extemporization, impromptu, improvise, improvisation, brogue, aphasia, amnesia, oratory, elocution, rhetoric, oratorical, rhetorical, rhetorician, elocutionary, peroration, voluble, volubility, fluent, fluency
How to use Speech in a sentence?
Mostly we didn't interrupt The President. We let The President talk. The President talked for 45 minutes about quite an array of subjects, it was a very honest, unvarnished, here's - what-I'm - thinking speech.
Her position would no doubt be that her tweet was First Amendment rights and that they can’t control what she does outside work, this wasn’t a sexual harassment claim and that this was just her speaking her mind. That it was not a violation of her morality clause because it requires actions, not speech.
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.
If it offends you when I post saying I believe in protecting our nation’s children and supporting their right to free speech. Well, I’m sorry you feel that right is only for the privileged few.
Anyone who heard Modi's speech last year believed that he will bring some key fundamental changes and break new ground, it just did not feel that you were listening to the same Modi.
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