speechifying
Delivering lengthy monologues
Speechifying is making speeches, especially in a pompous, long-winded, or self-important manner.
The word carries a mocking edge—it suggests someone who lectures or orates when the situation doesn't call for it: Enough speechifying, let's vote.
Politicians and blowhards speechify; effective communicators simply speak.
Raised platform for speakers
- lecternTilted stand for texts
- stumpTrunk base after felling
- addressSpeak to formally
- orationFormal public speech
discourse · presentation · declamation · exhortation · recitation · proclamation · rostrum · platform
Excessively inflated language
- floridExcessively ornate or ruddy
- pretentiousFalsely grand or important
- turgidSwollen or pompous
- highfalutinAffectedly superior or fancy
orotund · purple · overwrought · magniloquent · ostentatious · fustian · inflated · sesquipedalian
Extended angry speech
- diatribeBitter, prolonged verbal attack
- rantAngry prolonged outburst
- filibusterDelaying tactic through speech
- monologueUninterrupted solo address
lecture · sermonizing · moralizing · pontificating · droning · rambling · long-winded · tedious
Cause to believe
- argumentReasoned case or dispute
- debateFormal argument on issues
- swayRock back and forth
- motivateCause to act
advocate · rhetoric · appeal · exhort · rally · rouse · stir · influence
Formal speaking skill
- dictionChoice of words
- enunciationClarity of spoken words
- pronunciationManner of speaking words
- intonationPitch variation in speech
cadence · inflection · modulation · articulation · pacing · timing · projection · gestures
podium
Raised platform for speakers
oration · discourse · presentation · declamation · exhortation · recitation · proclamation · rostrum · platform · soapbox
bombastic
Excessively inflated language
- floridExcessively ornate or ruddy
- pretentiousFalsely grand or important
- turgidSwollen or pompous
highfalutin · orotund · purple · overwrought · magniloquent · ostentatious · fustian · inflated · sesquipedalian · grandiose
tirade
Extended angry speech
- diatribeBitter, prolonged verbal attack
- rantAngry prolonged outburst
- filibusterDelaying tactic through speech
monologue · lecture · sermonizing · moralizing · pontificating · droning · rambling · long-winded · tedious · windbag
convince
Cause to believe
motivate · advocate · rhetoric · appeal · exhort · rally · rouse · stir · influence · campaign
elocution
Formal speaking skill
- dictionChoice of words
- enunciationClarity of spoken words
- pronunciationManner of speaking words
intonation · cadence · inflection · modulation · articulation · pacing · timing · projection · gestures · poise
- theatricstheatrics, dramatics, melodrama, histrionics, theatricality
- campaign jargontalking points, sound bites, soundbite, soundbites, spin doctor
- speechmakingorating, declaiming, sermonizing, preaching, lecturing
- talkativenesstalkativeness, verbosity, wordiness, garrulity, loquacity
- blatherbabble, balderdash, baloney, blarney, blather
- tiradestirades, tirade, rants, rant, harangues
speechifyingconversing
Engaging in spoken exchange
listening · dialoguing · discussing · dialogue · silence
speechifyingsilence
Total lack of sound
keeping quiet · saying nothing · muteness · reticence · taciturnity
speechifyinggetting to the point
Stating the essence plainly
straight talk · cutting to the chase · brevity · conciseness · terseness
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