eloquent

The word “eloquent” has 3 syllables: el-o-quent

It's pronounced as /ˈɛləkwənt/


What is synonym and antonym for eloquent?

In the thesaurus, “eloquent” has 102 synonyms and 71 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for eloquent along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for eloquent

  • academic
  • academical
  • affected
  • affecting
  • ardent
  • aristocratic
  • articulate
  • attic
  • blabby
  • bombastic
  • bookish
  • chatty
  • classy
  • correct
  • courtly
  • cultured
  • declamatory
  • educated
  • elevated
  • evocative
  • expressive
  • facile
  • facund
  • fervent
  • fervid
  • fine
  • flavorful
  • florid
  • flowery
  • fluent
  • forceful
  • formal
  • full-bodied
  • garrulous
  • genteel
  • glib
  • graceful
  • grammatical
  • grandiloquent
  • grandiose
  • graphic
  • graphical
  • hifalutin
  • high-flown
  • highfalutin
  • impassioned
  • impressive
  • indicative
  • learned
  • literary
  • lofty
  • loquacious
  • magniloquent
  • majestic
  • meaning
  • meaningful
  • moving
  • oratorical
  • outspoken
  • passionate
  • patrician
  • persuasive
  • pictorial
  • poignant
  • pompous
  • potent
  • powerful
  • pregnant
  • pretentious
  • proper
  • redolent
  • refined
  • reminiscent
  • revealing
  • revelatory
  • rhetoric
  • rhetorical
  • rich
  • sententious
  • significant
  • silver-tongued
  • smooth-spoken
  • smooth-tongued
  • stately
  • stilted
  • stirring
  • suggestive
  • talkative
  • tasteful
  • telling
  • touching
  • towering
  • unfaltering
  • unhesitating
  • verbal
  • verbose
  • vivid
  • vocal
  • voluble
  • weighty
  • well-expressed
  • well-spoken

Antonyms for eloquent

  • apathetic
  • calm
  • casual
  • coarse
  • cold
  • colloquial
  • common
  • conversational
  • cool
  • crass
  • crude
  • dispassionate
  • dull
  • faltering
  • frigid
  • gross
  • halting
  • hesitant
  • ill-bred
  • impotent
  • inarticulate
  • incorrect
  • indecent
  • indifferent
  • ineffective
  • ineloquent
  • informal
  • introverted
  • low
  • lowbred
  • lowbrow
  • maundering
  • mumbling
  • mute
  • muttering
  • nonformal
  • rough
  • rough-hewn
  • rude
  • shy
  • slangy
  • speechless
  • sputtering
  • stammering
  • stumbling
  • stuttering
  • substandard
  • tasteless
  • tongue-tied
  • tongueless
  • unaffecting
  • unbookish
  • uncouth
  • uncultivated
  • uncultured
  • undignified
  • uneducated
  • unenthusiastic
  • unexcited
  • unexpressive
  • ungrammatical
  • unlearned
  • unliterary
  • unmoving
  • unpolished
  • unrefined
  • unvocal
  • vernacular
  • voiceless
  • vulgar
  • weak

Meanings of eloquent

  • adjective
    1. Fluently persuasive and articulate.
    2. Effective in expressing meaning by speech.

Example Sentences

  • She gave an eloquent speech that inspired everyone in the room.
  • His eloquent writing style captured the readers’ attention.
  • The lawyer was eloquent in presenting her case to the jury.
  • He is known for being an eloquent spokesperson on social issues.
  • Her eloquent silence said more than words ever could.

On this page you'll find 173 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to eloquent, such as: academic, academical, affected, affecting, apathetic, ardent, aristocratic.

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echoing

  • Xerox
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  • eloquent
  • emphatic
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  • euphonic
  • euphonious
  • expressing
  • fake
  • flat
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  • forceful
  • forgery
  • full
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  • ghostly
  • grumble
  • harmonic
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  • heightened
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  • huge
  • image
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  • mellifluent
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  • mime
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  • parallel
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  • paraphrasing
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  • perpetual
  • phony
  • picture
  • plangent
  • pleasant
  • polyphonic
  • polyphonous
  • powerful
  • profound
  • pronouncing
  • pulsating
  • pulsing
  • quaver
  • quavering
  • quoting
  • racket
  • ranting
  • rat-a-tat
  • reduplicating
  • reechoing
  • reflecting
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  • reiterative
  • repeating
  • repetitious
  • replica
  • representing
  • reproducing
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  • resonance
  • resonant
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  • resounding
  • reverberant
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  • rhythmic
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  • rich
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  • roar
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  • rolling
  • roomy
  • rotund
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  • rumble
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  • semblance
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  • sham
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  • songful
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  • spacious
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  • stentorian
  • strident
  • sunken
  • sweet
  • symphonic
  • symphonious
  • takeoff
  • thrilling
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  • thunder
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  • tonal
  • toneless
  • transcription
  • travesty
  • trilling
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  • warbling
  • wide
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magnific

  • Homeric
  • admirable
  • affected
  • ambitious
  • apocalyptic
  • apocalyptical
  • august
  • aureate
  • awe-inspiring
  • awesome
  • awful
  • baronial
  • bloated
  • boastful
  • bombastic
  • bookish
  • celestial
  • colossal
  • cosmic
  • cosmical
  • dignified
  • divine
  • dynamite
  • elevated
  • eloquent
  • eminent
  • epic
  • exalted
  • excellent
  • excessive
  • extraordinary
  • extravagant
  • fab
  • fancy-pants
  • fine
  • first-class
  • first-rate
  • flattering
  • florid
  • flowery
  • formidable
  • fulsome
  • gallant
  • glorious
  • gorgeous
  • grand
  • grandiloquent
  • grandiose
  • haughty
  • heavenly
  • heroic
  • heroical
  • hifalutin
  • high-flown
  • high-sounding
  • highfalutin
  • illustrious
  • imperial
  • imposing
  • impressive
  • inflated
  • inkhorn
  • killer
  • kingly
  • large
  • lavish
  • learned
  • lofty
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  • magnificent
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  • noble
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  • overblown
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  • proud
  • purple
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  • rhetoric
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  • sensational
  • smashing
  • something else
  • splendid
  • splendiferous
  • stately
  • stilted
  • striking
  • stupendous
  • sublime
  • sumptuous
  • super
  • superb
  • terrific
  • tremendous
  • unreal
  • very good
  • wonderful
  • wondrous

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