Enunciate
verb
To say words or sounds clearly.
She enunciated each word carefully during her speech.
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- enunciate each word
- enunciate clearly
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Formal
verb
To express an idea or plan clearly or formally.
The main points of the theory were enunciated in his essay.
Often appears as...
- enunciate a theory
- enunciate the principles
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
verb
To say words or sounds clearly.
She enunciated each word carefully during her speech.
Often appears as...
- enunciate each word
- enunciate clearly
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To express an idea or plan clearly or formally.
The main points of the theory were enunciated in his essay.
Often appears as...
- enunciate a theory
- enunciate the principles
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Speaking Clearly
Emphasize important sounds within words to improve understanding.
She took care to enunciate the final 's' in 'processes'.
Pro Tip 2/3Public Speaking
Use 'enunciate' when discussing techniques for effective oral presentations.
Conference speakers must enunciate to reach the audience at the back.
Pro Tip 3/3Acting Skills
Actors enunciate to convey their character's emotions more clearly.
To play the king, he enunciated his orders with great emphasis.
Compare with
announcearticulatedeclareexpressproclaimpronouncestatevocalize
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Video examples
Why can parrots talk? -...
A person would string these sounds together using their larynx, the organ at the top of their windpipe. It consists of rings of muscles and a vibrating membrane that controls airflow. They’d finely shape the vocalization into enunciated words using their tongue and lips.
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Jamila Lyiscott: 3 ways...
Today, a baffled lady observed the shell where my soul dwells And announced that I'm "articulate" Which means that when it comes to enunciation and diction
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Why can parrots talk? -...
A person would string these sounds together using their larynx, the organ at the top of their windpipe. It consists of rings of muscles and a vibrating membrane that controls airflow. They’d finely shape the vocalization into enunciated words using their tongue and lips.
Video examples
Jamila Lyiscott: 3 ways...
Today, a baffled lady observed the shell where my soul dwells And announced that I'm "articulate" Which means that when it comes to enunciation and diction
Example 1 of 2
Quote examples
Emmeline Pankhurst
English Activist
Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed.
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Walter Gropius
German Architect
The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue.
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Yannick Bisson
When I start gearing up to do each new season of 'Murdoch', my wife will often catch me out. I start speaking differently. I start enunciating, and start using certain highbrow words, and things like that.
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Jacob Collier
English Musician
I can support my sound from the diaphragm, I can project and I can enunciate and things like that. But I was definitely singing from a lot younger than that.
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Peter Frampton
English Musician
A lot of other people have used the talk box but have used it as a sound as opposed to actually making the guitar enunciate words.
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Loretta Young
American Actress
A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.
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Florence Nightingale
English Activist
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
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Jonathan Krohn
American Author
My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.
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Thomas Huxley
English Scientist
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
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Shannon Sharpe
American Athlete
I'm not supposed to be phonetically correct or enunciate perfectly.
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Emmeline Pankhurst
English Activist
Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed.
Quote examples
Walter Gropius
German Architect
The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue.
Quote examples
Yannick Bisson
When I start gearing up to do each new season of 'Murdoch', my wife will often catch me out. I start speaking differently. I start enunciating, and start using certain highbrow words, and things like that.
Quote examples
Jacob Collier
English Musician
I can support my sound from the diaphragm, I can project and I can enunciate and things like that. But I was definitely singing from a lot younger than that.
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Peter Frampton
English Musician
A lot of other people have used the talk box but have used it as a sound as opposed to actually making the guitar enunciate words.
Quote examples
Loretta Young
American Actress
A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.
Quote examples
Florence Nightingale
English Activist
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
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Jonathan Krohn
American Author
My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.
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Thomas Huxley
English Scientist
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
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Shannon Sharpe
American Athlete
I'm not supposed to be phonetically correct or enunciate perfectly.
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