Antonyms of adj inarticulate

1 sense of inarticulate

Sense 1
inarticulate (vs. articulate), unarticulate -- (without or deprived of the use of speech or words; "inarticulate beasts"; "remained stupidly inarticulate and saying something noncommittal"; "inarticulate with rage"; "an inarticulate cry")

articulate (vs. inarticulate) -- (expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language; "articulate speech"; "an articulate orator"; "articulate beings")
        => eloquent, facile, fluent, silver, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken -- (expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech")
        => speech-endowed -- (capable of speech; "the speaking animal")
        => well-spoken -- (speaking or spoken fittingly or pleasingly; "a well-spoken gentleman"; "a few well-spoken words on civic pride")

Similarity of adj inarticulate

1 sense of inarticulate

Sense 1
inarticulate (vs. articulate), unarticulate -- (without or deprived of the use of speech or words; "inarticulate beasts"; "remained stupidly inarticulate and saying something noncommittal"; "inarticulate with rage"; "an inarticulate cry")
       => aphasic -- (unable to speak because of a brain lesion)
       => aphonic, voiceless -- (being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech)
       => dumb, mute, silent -- (unable to speak because of hereditary deafness)
       => dumb -- (lacking the power of human speech; "dumb animals")
       => incoherent, tongue-tied -- (unable to express yourself clearly or fluently; "felt tongue-tied with embarrassment"; "incoherent with grief")
       => mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordless -- (expressed without speech; "a mute appeal"; "a silent curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief"; "choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe)
       => speechless, dumb -- (temporarily incapable of speaking; "struck dumb"; "speechless with shock")
       => unarticulated -- (uttered without the use of normal words or syllables)
          Also See-> uncommunicative#1, incommunicative#1

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