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Word Meanings - INELOQUENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not eloquent; not fluent, graceful, or pathetic; not persuasive; as, ineloquent language. Nor are thy lips ungraceful, sire of men, Nor tongue ineloquent. Milton.

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  • INELOQUENTLY
    Without eloquence.
  • TONGUELET
    A little tongue.
  • GRACEFUL
    Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.
  • TONGUE-SHELL
    Any species of Lingula.
  • TONGUESTER
    One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.
  • ELOQUENT
    1. Having the power of expressing strong emotions or forcible arguments in an elevated, impassioned, and effective manner; as, an eloquent orator or preacher. O Death, all-eloquent! You only prove What dust we dote on when 't is man we love. Pope.
  • FLUENTLY
    In a fluent manner.
  • TONGUED
    Having a tongue. Tongued like the night crow. Donne.
  • TONGUE-TIED
    1. Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short frænum. 2. Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. Shak.
  • FLUENT
    1. Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving. 2. Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command; and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; --
  • TONGUE-PAD
    A great talker.
  • TONGUE-SHAPED
    Shaped like a tongue; specifically , linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf.
  • UNGRACEFUL
    Not graceful; not marked with ease and dignity; deficient in beauty and elegance; inelegant; awkward; as, ungraceful manners; ungraceful speech. The other oak remaining a blackened and ungraceful trunk. Sir W. Scott. -- Un*grace"ful*ly, adv. --
  • ELOQUENTLY
    In an eloquent manner.
  • TONGUEFISH
    A flounder native of the southern coast of the United States.
  • MILTONIAN
    Miltonic. Lowell.
  • LANGUAGE
    tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the
  • PERSUASIVE
    Tending to persuade; having the power of persuading; as, persuasive eloquence. "Persuasive words." Milton.
  • MILTONIC
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
  • FLUENTNESS
    The quality of being fluent.
  • SERPENT-TONGUED
    Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
  • OVERLANGUAGED
    Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
  • SYMPATHETIC
    1. Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing. Far wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind. Goldsmith. 2. Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy. Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. Gray. Produced by sympathy; --
  • MELLIFLUENTLY
    In a mellifluent manner.
  • THEOPATHETIC; THEOPATHIC
    Of or pertaining to a theopathy.
  • HONEY-TONGUED
    Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
  • SHRILL-TONGUED
    Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
  • AFFLUENTNESS
    Great plenty.
  • ADDER'S-TONGUE
    A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.
  • LONG-TONGUE
    The wryneck.
  • PLEASANT-TONGUED
    Of pleasing speech.
  • TRUMPET-TONGUED
    Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.
  • APATHETICALLY
    In an apathetic manner.
  • RORIFLUENT
    Flowing with dew.
  • TWO-TONGUED
    Double-tongued; deceitful. Sandys.
  • INFLUENTIAL
    Exerting or possessing influence or power; potent; efficacious; effective; strong; having authority or ascendency; as, an influential man, station, argument, etc. A very influential Gascon prefix. Earle.

 

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