ARTICULACY Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

articulacy

noun

är-ˈti-kyə-lə-sē

Definition of articulacy

chiefly British

as in poetry

the art or power of speaking or writing in a forceful and convincing way the impressive articulacy of the members of the debating society known as the Oxford Union

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inarticulateness

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Recent Examples of articulacy The results are astonishing, and Robin transforms from a struggling, depressive, and too often rageful child into a youth of prodigious wisdom and articulacy. — Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021

Recent Examples of Synonyms for articulacy

Noun

Cadogan, a poetry lover, also worked with Laura Turner, creative producer at Beningbrough, to bring in a writer-in-residence.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2026
His poetry has been published in Nine Mile, Doubly Mad, Pulsebeat, and The Lyric, and elsewhere.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of poetry

Noun

Israel and Iran ramped up their rhetoric against one another, raising the prospect of a return to open conflict in the Middle East.

— Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026
The Israeli-American Council forcefully condemned his rhetoric as dangerous, dehumanizing hate speech.

— Staff, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of rhetoric

Noun

Played by the six-foot-six David Prowse and voiced with eloquence and controlled rage by James Earl Jones, Vader is a force of inescapable menace throughout George Lucas’s Star Wars trilogy.

— John Roy, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2026
In their eloquence and their ways of avoiding easy comfort, the poems also deal with the hushed experience of surviving someone else’s death and fulfill the urge to say something not only real and true but formal and exact, as though for a ceremony.

— Colm Tóibín, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026