Word Meanings - SPEAKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 merely permits the exchange of salutations and remarks on indifferent subjects. -- Speaking trumpet, an instrument somewhat resembling a trumpet, by which the sound of the human voice may be so intensified as to be conveyed to a great distance. -- Speaking tube, a tube for conveying speech, especially from one room to another at a distance. -- To be on speaking terms, to be slightly acquainted.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SPEAKING)

• Significant
• Expressive
• momentous
• suggestive
• indicative
• forcible
• weighty
• symbolical
• telling
• speaking

Related words: (words related to SPEAKING)

• TELLER
  1. One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer. 2. One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king. Cowell. 3. An officer
• TELLABLE
  Capable of being told.
• TELLURIAN
  Of or pertaining to the earth. De Quincey.
• FORCIBLE-FEEBLE
  Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. (more info) Part of Shakespeare's "King Henry
• TELLEN
  Any species of Tellina.
• MOMENTOUS
  Of moment or consequence; very important; weighty; as, a momentous decision; momentous affairs. -- Mo*men"tous*ly, adv. -- Mo*men"tous*ness, n.
• INDICATIVELY
  In an indicative manner; in a way to show or signify.
• TELLURIZE
  To impregnate with, or to subject to the action of, tellurium; -- chiefly used adjectively in the past participle; as, tellurized ores.
• TELLURIC
  Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or resembling, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with tellurous compounds; as, telluric acid, which is analogous to sulphuric
• SPEAKERSHIP
  The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
• EXPRESSIVE
  1. Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. Each verse so swells expressive of her woes. Tickell. 2. Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning
• 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
• TELLTALE
  Telling tales; babbling. "The telltale heart." Poe.
• TELLURAL
  Of or pertaining to the earth.
• TELLINA
  A genus of marine bivalve mollusks having thin, delicate, and often handsomely colored shells.
• WEIGHTY
  1. Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body. 2. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous. "For sundry weighty reasons." Shak. Let me have your advice in a weighty affair. Swift.
• TELL
  tellan, from talu tale, number, speech; akin to D. tellen to count, G. zählen, OHG. zellen to count, tell, say, Icel. telja, Dan. tale to 1. To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as,
• TELLURITE
  A salt of tellurous acid.
• SUGGESTIVE MEDICINE
  Treatment by commands or positive statements addressed to a more or less hypnotized patient.
• TELLUROUS
  Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or containing, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with telluric compounds; as, tellurous acid, which is analogous to sulphurous
• PATELLULA
  A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.
• SCUTELLUM
  A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens. The third of the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the
• RETELL
  To tell again.
• ROSTELLAR
  Pertaining to a rostellum.
• PATELLAR
  Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneepan.
• STELLED
  Firmly placed or fixed. "The stelled fires" . Shak.
• ENFORCIBLE
  That may be enforced.
• BESPEAKER
  One who bespeaks.
• INTERSTELLAR
  Between or among the stars; as, interstellar space. Bacon.
• INTELLECTUALIST
  1. One who overrates the importance of the understanding. Bacon. 2. One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism.
• IMMOMENTOUS
  Not momentous; unimportant; insignificant. A. Seward.
• INTELLECT
  The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power
• INTELLIGENTIAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the intelligence; exercising or implying understanding; intellectual. "With act intelligential." Milton. 2. Consisting of unembodied mind; incorporeal. Food alike those pure Intelligential substances require. Milton.
• OUTSPEAK
  1. To exceed in speaking. 2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. 3. To express more than. Shak.
• CAPITELLATE
  Having a very small knoblike termination, or collected into minute capitula.
• UNBESPEAK
  To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel. Pepys.