Synonyms of pronouncing

pronouncing

verb

present participle of pronounce

1

as in saying

to correctly produce the sound of (a word or letter) with one's voice

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Related Words

• saying
• speaking
• expressing
• voicing
• articulating
• talking
• telling
• uttering
• enunciating
• verbalizing
• vocalizing
• speaking out
• speaking up

Dissimilar Words

• halting
• hesitating
• stumbling
• grunting
• faltering
• stammering
• whispering
• stuttering
• muttering
• sputtering
• mumbling
• murmuring
• mouthing
• breathing
• spluttering
• gasping
• maundering
• drawling

2

as in reciting

to say or announce (something) in an official or formal way

The priest pronounced the blessing.

Emotions ran high in the courtroom as the judge pronounced sentence.

Related Words

• reciting
• uttering
• giving
• announcing
• stating
• voicing
• delivering
• proclaiming
• determining
• declaring
• resolving
• ordering
• deciding
• setting forth
• judging
• administering
• adjudicating
• dictating
• sounding
• passing
• ruling (on)
• publicizing
• adjudging
• mandating
• enacting
• decreeing
• publishing
• broadcasting
• making
• advertising
• directing
• arbitrating
• commanding
• settling
• ordaining
• constituting
• effecting
• calling
• approving
• reeling off
• authorizing
• legislating
• confirming
• refereeing
• executing
• ratifying
• umpiring
• bringing about
• permitting
• laying down
• reenacting
• sanctioning
• repassing
• allowing

Dissimilar Words

• concealing
• recalling
• withholding
• suppressing
• revoking
• silencing
• retracting
• canceling
• rescinding
• repealing
• reversing
• killing
• abolishing
• recanting
• nullifying
• annulling
• invalidating
• hushing (up)
• abrogating
• overturning
• countermanding
• voiding

3

as in proclaiming

to say officially or assertively that (something or someone) is something specified

They pronounced the mission a success.

She pronounced them married.

Related Words

• proclaiming
• declaring
• insisting
• announcing
• affirming
• claiming
• enunciating
• asserting
• sounding
• alleging
• protesting
• promulgating
• avowing
• purporting
• contending
• showing
• professing
• averring
• maintaining
• trumpeting
• publicizing
• heralding
• publishing
• posting
• barking
• advertising
• broadcasting
• crying
• blaring
• touting
• ringing
• promoting
• annunciating
• calling (off or out)
• warranting
• flashing
• blazing
• disseminating
• disclosing
• reporting
• releasing
• giving out
• tolling
• informing
• placarding
• featuring
• blazoning
• divulging
• puffing
• notifying
• introducing
• imparting
• billing
• intimating
• confirming
• avouching
• justifying
• upholding
• revealing
• manifesting
• knelling
• plugging
• gazetting
• bulletining
• communicating
• defending
• billboarding
• reasoning
• rationalizing
• blurbing
• apprising
• advising
• spreading
• vindicating
• arguing
• handing down
• persevering
• pitching
• reaffirming
• kithing
• reasserting
• running with
• supporting
• beating the drum (for or about)

Dissimilar Words

• ignoring
• disregarding
• neglecting
• minimizing
• concealing
• overlooking
• withholding
• suppressing
• silencing
• recalling
• understating
• revoking
• abandoning
• downplaying
• rejecting
• hushing (up)
• retracting
• recanting
• repudiating
• denying
• questioning
• disclaiming
• negating
• playing down
• disavowing
• challenging
• underplaying
• disowning
• disputing
• refuting
• disproving
• contradicting
• countering
• negativing
• rebutting
• soft-pedaling
• de-emphasizing
• confuting
• gainsaying

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pronouncing

Many letters are shaped like the mouth when pronouncing them. — New York Times, 17 July 2026

Arriaga’s relative brought her to Hemphill’s practice, Cuddle Kids Dental Care, after a teacher at Arriaga’s preschool suggested the girl might have a tongue tie due to her having issues with pronouncing certain letters, according to the warrant. — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 July 2026

Two months earlier, the Warren Commission had delivered its final report, pronouncing Lee Harvey Oswald guilty. — Ash Carter, Air Mail, 4 July 2026

Paramedics responded and rendered aid to the man before pronouncing him dead at the scene. — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 16 June 2026

Air rescuers attempted to revive Hasley but were unsuccessful, pronouncing him dead at the scene. — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 9 June 2026

The jury on Longet's trial was split at first, with four pronouncing her guilty of the more serious charge of reckless manslaughter, four voting for acquittal and four being undecided, per GQ. — Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 2 May 2026

The Pretendian hunters were not always interested in a full accounting of the facts before pronouncing a person legitimately Native or a fraud. — David Treuer, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026

Kilmartin describes her practice of allowing only Spanish in the house on Sundays, subtly acknowledging the irony of a white woman making this rule by pronouncing all the Spanish words in an anglicized high-school Spanish accent. — John Roy, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2026