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

Synonyms & Similar Words

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Antonyms & Near Antonyms

inarticulateness

Example Sentences

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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

Jeffrey, who had one daughter, wrote poetry and rap lyrics with a social conscience and was involved in jailhouse ministry while he was incarcerated.

— Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
But when Batter gets a dream job at Peck & Peck, the most prestigious poetry quarterly in the world, his life moves into the literary fast lane.

— Danielle Parker, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of poetry

Noun

And a Gallup poll last year revealed a majority of Americans feel that both parties have gone too far in their use of inflammatory rhetoric to criticize their opponents.

— Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2026
The rhetoric from Rogers and other Republicans about El-Sayed has added to those frustrations.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 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