Usually means: Art of effective public speaking.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. elocutionary: Merriam-Webster
  2. elocutionary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elocutionary: Collins English Dictionary
  4. elocutionary: Vocabulary.com
  5. elocutionary: Wordnik
  6. elocutionary: Wiktionary
  7. Elocutionary, elocutionary: Dictionary.com
  8. Elocutionary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. elocutionary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. elocutionary: Rhymezone
  11. Elocutionary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. elocutionary: FreeDictionary.org
  13. elocutionary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Elocutionary: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elocutionary: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical

Similar:
affected, unnatural, elocutory, elocutive, oratorical, epideictic, locutionary, lectical, spoken, perlocutionary, more...

Opposite:
inarticulate, uneloquent, halting, awkward, rambling

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Similar:
affected, unnatural, elocutory, elocutive, oratorical, epideictic, locutionary, lectical, spoken, perlocutionary, more...

Opposite:
inarticulate, uneloquent, halting, awkward, rambling



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