SPEAKING OUT Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

speaking out 1 of 2

adjective

as in speaking up

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speaking out

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verb

present participle of speak out

as in spouting (off)

to voice one's opinions freely with force it's a free country, so anyone can speak out

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Recent Examples of speaking out

Verb

Brattin said other conservatives face the same threats for speaking out. — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 16 Oct. 2026 Selma Blair is speaking out for the first time since her arrest. — Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Residents began speaking out in early October, as WBTV reported. — Charlotte Observer, 16 Oct. 2026 Terrell County’s Republican sheriff, Thad Cleveland, who spent 26 years in the Border Patrol, is among those speaking out against the project in Big Bend. — Rebecca Santana, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026 The girl’s mother now strongly regrets ever giving her daughter the raw milk and has tried to raise awareness of the risk—only to get barred from online groups for speaking out. — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 7 Oct. 2026 The parents of 13-year-old Julian Amador, who died when a Sanger ISD school bus overturned in Denton County, are speaking out. — Briseida Holguin, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026 Chris Brown is speaking out after allegedly not being able to see his four-year-old daughter, Lovely, for the last seven months amid a custody battle with his baby mother, Diamond Brown. — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2026 First, men who receive accurate information about what other men actually believe are less inhibited about speaking out and intervening. — Catherine A. Sanderson, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for speaking out

Adjective

Marshall’s campaign has claimed without evidence that the Democratic nominee bussed in the vocal audience members.

— Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2026
Its warped vocal harmonies are ripe and sour, including guest appearances from the band’s friends, and off-kilter squiggles on steel guitar deviate from their usual pattern.

— Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of vocal

Verb

Later that month, two teenage supporters attended a Fever-Storm game at Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena wearing XX-XY Athletics shirts and carrying a sign thanking Cunningham for speaking up for girls.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
When people feel comfortable speaking up, different perspectives become an advantage.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of speaking up

Adjective

Through the administration’s embrace (and extensive personal leveraging) of crypto’s potential, crypto and retail speculation are increasingly being woven into the fabric of communicative and cultural spaces.

— Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
The arrival ceremony suggested that others understood the communicative potential of clothes at such an event, too.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of communicative

Verb

According to Pollak, the couple repeatedly heard Torn shouting at someone through the hotel's thin walls.

— Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Putting them under one clear execution item can preserve the work while reducing the number of separate things shouting at me.

— Morissa Schwartz, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of shouting

Adjective

George had never seen wilderness this expansive, nature as far as the horizon.

— Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
In the cursed days of auto-sync, pre-mixed sets, and the celebrity spinner, few have done as much to defend the noble art of the DJ as Felix Manuel, aka Djrum, a selector who combines galactically expansive taste with equally vast technical skill.

— Ben Cardew, Pitchfork, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of expansive

Verb

Elaine Hendrix is sounding off about Tuesday’s shocking elimination on Dancing With the Stars season 35.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2026
Vocalization increases, with more bulls sounding off as the rut approaches; the peak is generally considered to be the last two weeks of September.

— Jim Zumbo, Outdoor Life, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of sounding off

Verb

One 10-year-old girl, crying and trying to hug her father, was allegedly grabbed by the neck by law enforcement, according to the lawsuit.

— Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 19 Oct. 2026
Among them were a parent at her daughter’s school who recognized her on account of her voice alone and a dad on an airplane whose baby had been crying non-stop for over an hour.

— Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026