Antonyms for oratory
ˈɔr əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i, ˈɒr-or·a·to·ry

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1. oratory

   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, taciturnity

   Synonyms:
   address, address, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, harangue, language, oration, sermon, speaking, speech, talk, utterance

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 4 votes

1. oratory

   Antonyms:
   hesitation, tardiloquence, imperfection of speech

   Synonyms:
   eloquence, rhetoric, elocution, declamation

Matched Categories

1. • Address

Princeton's WordNet

1. oratorynoun

   addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)

   "he loved the sound of his own oratory"

How to use oratory in a sentence?

1. Albert Einstein:

   There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it

2. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska:

   He was doing fine with moral courage until he got to the head on the pike. That's where he lost me, he was moving right along with the good oratory, and then he got to a couple places and it was just unnecessary.

3. Kun Guo:

   This is the first empirical experiment that will show dogs can integrate visual and oratory inputs to understand or differentiate human emotion as dog emotion.

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