articulate
adjective/ɑːˈtɪkjələt/
/ɑːrˈtɪkjələt/
- (of a person) good at expressing ideas or feelings clearly in words
- He was unusually articulate for a ten-year-old.
- She is the most articulate critic of government policy.
- The teachers help the children to be more articulate about their strengths and weaknesses.
- a highly articulate woman
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
- about
- (of speech) clearly expressed or pronounced
- All we could hear were loud sobs, but no articulate words.
opposite inarticulate
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Latin articulatus, past participle of articulare ‘divide into joints, utter distinctly’, from articulus ‘small connecting part’, diminutive of artus ‘joint’.
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