Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb speak

5 senses of speak

Sense 1
talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise -- (express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize")
       => communicate, intercommunicate -- (transmit thoughts or feelings; "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist")
          Phrasal Verb-> speak up#2

Sense 2
talk, speak -- (exchange thoughts; talk with; "We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words")
       => communicate, intercommunicate -- (transmit thoughts or feelings; "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist")
          Phrasal Verb-> speak for#1

Sense 3
speak, talk -- (use language; "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect")
       => communicate, intercommunicate -- (transmit thoughts or feelings; "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist")

Sense 4
address, speak -- (give a speech to; "The chairman addressed the board of trustees")

Sense 5
speak -- (make a characteristic or natural sound; "The drums spoke")
       => sound -- (give off a certain sound or sounds; "This record sounds scratchy")

Antonyms of adj spoken

1 sense of spoken

Sense 1
spoken (vs. written) -- (uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination; "a spoken message"; "the spoken language"; "a soft-spoken person"; "sharp-spoken")

written (vs. spoken) -- (set down in writing in any of various ways; "written evidence")
        => backhand, left-slanting -- ((of handwriting) having the letters slanting backward)
        => cursive -- (having successive letter joined together; "cursive script")
        => engrossed -- (written formally in a large clear script, as a deed or other legal document)
        => graphic, graphical, in writing (predicate) -- (written or drawn or engraved; "graphic symbols")
        => handwritten -- (written by hand)
        => holographic -- (written wholly in the handwriting of the signer; "a holographic will")
        => inscribed -- (written (by handwriting, printing, engraving, or carving) on or in a surface)
        => longhand -- (having words written out in full by hand; "longhand writing")
        => scrivened -- (copied in handwriting)
        => shorthand -- (written in abbreviated or symbolic form; "shorthand notes")

Similarity of adj spoken

1 sense of spoken

Sense 1
spoken (vs. written) -- (uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination; "a spoken message"; "the spoken language"; "a soft-spoken person"; "sharp-spoken")
       => expressed, uttered, verbalized, verbalised -- (communicated in words; "frequently uttered sentiments")
       => oral, unwritten -- (using speech rather than writing; "an oral tradition"; "an oral agreement")
       => verbal -- (expressed in spoken words; "a verbal contract")
       => viva-voce, word-of-mouth -- (expressed orally; "a viva-voce report"; "the film had good word-of-mouth publicity")
          Also See-> articulate#1