What is another word for talking?
385 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ tˈɔːkɪŋ], [ tˈɔːkɪŋ], [ t_ˈɔː_k_ɪ_ŋ]
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adj.
• conferring (adjective)
- dis cussing,
- most discussing,
- de liberating,
- more meeting,
- more conversing,
- most conversing,
- most counseling,
- more counseling,
- de-liberating,
- most meeting,
- more deliberating,
- dis-cussing,
- more discussing,
- most deliberating.
• Other relevant words: (adjective)
- Conferring.
• speaking (adjective)
- chattering.
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n.
• articulation (noun)
- sayings,
- verbalization,
- speakings,
- talkings,
- saying.
• eloquent (noun)
- spouting,
- echoing,
- Enunciating,
- Articulating,
- Verbalizing,
- holding forth,
- verbose,
- fluent,
- waffling,
- repeating,
- Mouthing,
- Pronouncing,
- Declaiming,
- ranting,
- Expressing,
- Haranguing.
• explanation (noun)
- ex ample,
- ex-planation,
- ex-positions,
- in-formation,
- re-solution,
- ex-planations,
- ex-plication,
- re-solutions,
- ex-position,
- ex plication,
- ex planations,
- in formations,
- dis play,
- de tails,
- ex-ample,
- ex-plications,
- ex plications,
- dis-plays,
- in-formations,
- dis-play,
- re solutions,
- de-tails,
- ex planation,
- dis plays.
• intercommunication (noun)
- inter-communication,
- inter communication,
- inter-communications,
- inter communications.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- history,
- in formation,
- articulation,
- intercommunication,
- communication,
- mention,
- explanation,
- publication,
- making known,
- tellings,
- inter-change.
• speaking (noun)
- speaking.
• speech (noun)
- dialect,
- oration,
- allocution,
- dialog,
- locution,
- patter,
- spoken word,
- oral communication,
- vocalization,
- circumlocution,
- speech,
- chat,
- recitation,
- elocution,
- prattle,
- chitchat,
- jabbering,
- babbling,
- remark,
- voice,
- discussion,
- report,
- debate.
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v.
• conversing (verb)
- meeting,
- confronting,
- Debating,
- Consulting,
- Chatting,
- Discussing,
- arguing,
- Parleying,
- Conversing.
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- gathering,
- attending,
- hob-nobbing,
- joining,
- Befriending,
- Hosting,
- socializing.
• speaking (verb)
- tattling,
- lecturing,
- vocalizing,
- Remarking,
- gabbing,
- orating,
- preaching,
- chitchatting,
- voicing,
- Reciting,
- Pattering,
- prattling.
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Other synonyms:
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- doll.
• Other relevant words (noun):
- exchange,
- connection,
- buncombe,
- detect,
- learn,
- die,
- bombast,
- nattering,
- reprimand,
- optimism,
- Palavering,
- correspondence,
- blether,
- piffling,
- blethering,
- address,
- levelheaded,
- dialogue,
- Jawing,
- free-spoken,
- words,
- well-spoken,
- gas,
- Gibbering,
- snitching,
- blathering,
- reveal,
- enunciation,
- Blague,
- chatter,
- indicate,
- talk,
- faltering,
- crake,
- babble,
- stammering,
- idle words,
- intelligent,
- communion,
- message,
- Blabbing,
- burbling,
- reply,
- jactitation,
- plain-speaking,
- response,
- interplay,
- jaw,
- blithering,
- reporting,
- communicating,
- clack,
- brag,
- Communing,
- duologue,
- convey,
- Ejaculating,
- telling,
- assert,
- gossip,
- Fanfaronade,
- Plain-spoken,
- Outtalk,
- betray,
- deliver,
- mean,
- enunciate,
- outspoken,
- sound,
- gossiping,
- dealings,
- pour forth,
- congress,
- Addressing,
- magniloquence,
- advisement,
- Languaging,
- staging,
- flirting,
- Blatter,
- harangue,
- splattering,
- teratology,
- commerce,
- public lecture,
- overestimation,
- declare,
- comment,
- twaddle,
- annunciate,
- discourse,
- vaporing,
- Denouncing,
- Interviewing,
- bring,
- Rumoring,
- Discoursing,
- bestow,
- information,
- lecture,
- expressive,
- parole,
- rippling,
- explain,
- thorough,
- speak,
- notification,
- berating,
- communicate,
- acquaint,
- interaction,
- truck,
- rating,
- come across,
- blabbering,
- Braggardism,
- Narrating,
- emitting,
- rapping,
- rattle on,
- betraying,
- Uttering,
- healthy,
- pretensions,
- gasconade,
- denounce,
- find,
- wording,
- telepathy,
- rebuke,
- Commenting,
- shopping,
- trouncing,
- contact,
- Venditation,
- impart,
- spoken,
- express,
- Remonstrating,
- expression,
- boasting,
- loquacious,
- eloquent,
- whispering,
- bubbling,
- sloping,
- bravado,
- highfalutin,
- heavy,
- talky,
- discover,
- boast,
- expound,
- Reprimanding,
- lambasting,
- soft-spoken,
- maundering,
- answer,
- speech pattern,
- legal,
- highfaluting,
- touch,
- dialoguing,
- yak,
- Puffery,
- denote,
- language,
- whistling,
- exaggeration,
- apprise,
- dealing,
- vaunt,
- statement,
- Negotiating,
- happen,
- gabble,
- bunkum,
- break,
- flourish,
- Twattle,
- Dogmatizing,
- Clacking,
- contribute,
- vanity,
- confide,
- sermon,
- bring out,
- yakking,
- Gurgling,
- distribute,
- Jactancy,
- Confabulating,
- raging,
- pessimism,
- disclose,
- heroics,
- expatiate,
- diction,
- generalising,
- talkative,
- idiom,
- reasoned,
- Prating,
- raping,
- Tonguing,
- gabbling,
- gab,
- articulate,
- Spoking,
- intercommunion,
- converse,
- Disgorging,
- blather,
- smattering,
- talk nonsense,
- accent,
- jabber,
- Rebuking,
- prose,
- Speeching,
- palaver,
- reproofing,
- conversation,
- tall talk,
- divulge,
- Intoning,
- good,
- rattle,
- Grassing,
- intercourse,
- profound,
- rodomontade,
- accents,
- mumbling,
- hot air,
- pessimist,
- pious platitude,
- gabby,
- instruct,
- scolding,
- bluff,
- yakkety-yak,
- bounce,
- interchange,
- verbal communication,
- expose,
- native tongue,
- repeat,
- puff,
- leave,
- mouthy,
- nothingness,
- in touch,
- traffic,
- pretense,
- prate.
How to use «Talking» in context?
Talking is one of the basic ways humans communicate. People use talking to
communicate with others, to acquire information, to entertain themselves, and to learn.
Talking is also one of the most fundamental human activities. It helps people connect with
other people, share ideas, and build relationships. Talking also enables people to
communicate their needs and wants.
Talking can be difficult, but it’s also important. Talking helps people learn and
growth. It can also help people solve problems and make decisions.
Talking is a powerful tool. It can help people connect with others, share
ideas, and learn.
Paraphrases for Talking:
Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
talk.
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Proper noun, singular
conversation, talk.
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Noun, plural
conversations.
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Noun, singular or mass
conversation, talk.
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Interjection
talk.
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Adjective
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Forward Entailment
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Verb, gerund or present participle
gossiping.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
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Independent
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Adjective
talkin.
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Proper noun, singular
discuss, talks, Addresses, tells, speaks, updates.
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Noun, plural
talks, Cities, Stories, Addresses, Friends, reasons, calls, references, speakers, speeches, BAILS.
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Noun, singular or mass
dialogue, discuss, spoken.
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Verb, past tense
believe, opened, Eh, Meant, Mentioned, Referred, Told, HUH.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
according, acting, action, affecting, agreement, approaching, arguing, asking, asserting, assigning, babbling, bathing, bearing, becoming, beginning, being, believing, best, betting, breaking, briefing, bringing, broadcasting, calling, can, causing, challenging, close, coming, concerning, conducting, connecting, contact, convincing, cutting, dealing, directing, drawing, driving, emerging, emphasizing, engaging, exactly, express, facing, focusing, form, fostering, friend, gambling, getting, giving, going, good, greater, guiding, happening, heading, hearing, helping, hitting, identifying, improving, informing, insisting, interesting, intervening, laying, leading, lesson, liking, line, list, listening, listing, logging, looking, love, making, me, meaning, meeting, messaging, missing, moving, not, nothing, office, open, opinion, owing, past, perfect, phase, play, playing, pointing, preserving, pricing, proceeding, pursuing, putting, qualifying, questioning, raising, reflecting, regarding, reporting, response, resulting, retaining, rising, running, said, screaming, seeing, seeking, self-evident, sending, servicing, serving, sharing, shopping, singing, sounding, standing, starting, steering, stopping, striving, tackling, taking, thinking, threatening, touching, trading, train, traveling, travelling, treaty, trying, turning, type, typing, understanding, upcoming, vi, waiting, wearing, wedding, why, writing, Achieving, Addressing, Aiming, Alleging, Alluding, Announcing, Assisting, Attempting, Blackmailing, Carrying, Chatting, Choosing, Citing, Debating, Delivering, Describing, Doing, Employing, Enjoying, Evoking, Exchanging, Experiencing, Explaining, Expressing, Extending, Felling, Forgetting, Has, Having, Him, Hinting, Implying, Indicating, Interviewing, Invoking, Involving, Kidding, L, Linking, Maintaining, Myself, Negotiating, Nurturing, Occupying, Occurring, Persuading, Pertaining, Referring, Relating, Requesting, Resorting, Treating, Undergoing, Witnessing, Commentaries, Commenting, Conferring, Considering, Consisting, Consulting, Conversing, Proposing, Stating, Submitting, Suggesting, Sustaining, Wanna, Du, Benchmarking, Loves, Measures, Negotiations, Voices, touches, contacting, stressing, underlining, includes, entrusting, regards, issues, comments, questions, says, interacting, AM, Texting, featuring, spilling, targeting, fuelling, reminding, endeavouring, fucking, no, is, .writing.
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Verb, past participle
called, spoken, Meant, Mentioned, Referred, Told.
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
Studies, considers, seeks, speaks.
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Verb, base form
converse, refer, tell, who, Whom, talkto, talkingabout.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Noun, plural
Languages.
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
discusses.
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Verb, base form
discuss.
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Noun, plural
None of these are good words for this idea.
«Interlocutor» means someone involved in a conversation of any kind, not necessarily on a telephone. If you’re not worried about that distinction, then it’s a valid word. But it’s a very rarely used word. I haven’t taken a survey but I suspect most English speakers are not familiar with the word and would have to guess its meaning or look it up.
«Interviewer» implies that this conversation is an interview, that is, that someone is being questioned by a reporter for a news story, by a company that is considering hiring him for a job, or something of that sort. We don’t use this word for an ordinary conversation.
«Addressee» is normally used for someone to whom you have sent a letter, not a participant in a verbal conversation. It can be used in cases where a speaker calls someone out in some way, for example, a teacher picks a student to answer a question. But this is rather rare and use for a phone conversation would be unusual and possibly confusing.
«Hearer» implies that the person is listening only and not speaking. The word might be used for someone in a crowd listening to a speech, or someone who overhears a conversation between others. It is not used for someone who participates in a two-way conversation.
All that said, there is no one word in English to refer to someone participating in a telephone conversation. We normally use a short phrase, like, «the person I called» or «the person who called me». Other words to refer to a person may be used, like «the man who called», «that jerk who called», etc. You can call the person who called, «the caller». You might think that by analogy to other words you could refer to the person receiving the call as «the callee», but no fluent speaker says that. If you weren’t trying to reach a specific person, like if you called a company, you can say «there person who answered» (or «the woman who answered», etc) Once the context of a phone call is clear, we usually simply call the person by the same sort of shorthand we use for people in general: «him», «that lady», etc.
The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it’s like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the «HasProperty» API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there’s a much better way of doing this: parse books!
Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files — mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.
Hopefully it’s more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way — for example, gender is interesting: «woman» versus «man» and «boy» versus «girl». On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, «beautiful» is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world’s literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for «woman» — too many to show here).
The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The «uniqueness» sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives’ uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it’s actually pretty simple). As you’d expect, you can click the «Sort By Usage Frequency» button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source mongodb which was used in this project.
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noun 1 : the use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense (as in «the man he said») : redundancy 2 : an instance or example of pleonasm
Does the overtalker in your life use more words than is necessary to denote mere sense? If so, you may rightfully accuse them of pleonasm. It’s a word more than four centuries old, and it shares a satisfying final syllable with spasm and sarcasm, making it ripe for lobbing (good-naturedly, of course) at a friend. It comes from the Greek word pleonazein, meaning «to be excessive,» from pleiōn or pleōn, meaning «more.»
noun : excessive and often incoherent talkativeness or wordiness
Perhaps the expressions of the overtalker in your life are of a more noisome type. If so, the word logorrhea may be just the thing, what with its second element being familiar to most of us only in a term we typically associate with stomach bugs and food poisoning. Logorrhea is of late 19th century vintage, plucked from New Latin, which is the Latin that’s been heavily raided for scientific description and classification in English since the end of the medieval period. The logo part of course means «word.»
adjective 1 : containing more words than necessary : wordy also : impaired by wordiness 2 : given to wordiness
Those people among us who are prone to use more words than necessary are properly described as «verbose.» The things those people produce with their words—replies, orations, and the like—are likewise properly accorded the same designation. Verbose has been with us since the late 17th century and has its origin in the Latin word verbōsus, from verbum, meaning «word,» and -ōsus, meaning «full of.» It also comes in a slightly longer noun version as well: verbosity, as in «the verbosity of a verbose reply.»
adjective 1 : unduly prolonged or drawn out : too long 2 : marked by or using an excess of words
Prolix may have the crisp efficiency of a good 21st century brand name, but the word is long established and of a classical origin: borrowed into English from Anglo-French and Latin during the period known as Middle English, its ultimate origin is Latin prolixus, meaning «extended.» That word is formed from pro-, meaning «forward,» and liquēre, «to be fluid.»
noun : a person who talks excessively
When motormouth entered the language in the mid-20th century (near the dawn of the era of muscle cars) it was following in the footsteps of loudmouth («a person given to loud, offensive talk») and blabbermouth («a person who talks too much» and especially «a tattletale»), the earliest known evidence of which date to the second and fourth decades of the 20th century respectively. Smart-mouth («one given to making remarks that aim for cleverness and wit but that strike others as cocky or annoying») followed about a decade later.
adjective 1 : given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative 2 : using or containing many and usually too many words : wordy
Garrulous in English dates to the early 17th century, but it enjoyed a literary heyday in the 19th and early 20th centuries, appearing in the works of the likes of Charles Dickens, G. K. Chesterton, P. G. Wodehouse, Anne Brontë, and Herman Melville. It’s Latin in origin, coming from garrīre, meaning «to chatter, talk rapidly,» itself probably coined in imitation of the sound of someone chattering.
noun 1 : use of a longer phrasing in place of a possible shorter form of expression 2 : an instance of periphrasis
«Out with it, already!» one might say to another who tends to talk around the point instead of getting to it. The thing you’re objecting to can be termed periphrasis, a word that is Greek in origin, from peri-, meaning «around,» and phrazein, «to point out.» Periphrasis can be contrasted with a related word: holophrasis refers to the expression of a complex of ideas by a single word. Both are also related to antiphrasis, which refers to the usually ironic or humorous use of words in senses opposite to the generally accepted meanings, such as in a phrase like «an ancient creature 2 days old.»
noun 1 : the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea 2 : evasion in speech
There’s no way around it. Or maybe there is. Circumlocution is firmly in the second camp. While the word first referred to the use of many words to express an idea that could be expressed in many fewer, it has also for a long time referred to evasion in speech. Its origin is Latin: circum-, meaning «around,» and locutio, meaning «speech.»
She was very clever, very original, had known all sorts of people, and it was most interesting to hear her talk about King Louis Philippe‘s court, the Spanish marriages, the death of the Duc d’Orleans, the Coup d’Etat of Louis Napoleon, etc.
I shall explore below before having a talk with them.
« Mary was giving a talk at one of the churches.
he cried, «I am fain to bide awhile and hold talk with one Beltane, who styleth himselfDuke of Pentavalon.
« «I am running this game, and I want no talk from you, sir,« said Boulder.
It was sometimes hard for her to say the right English words, but the Holy Spirit helped her, and the people remembered her talks and gave generously for the work in Africa..
ANTONELLI, with a «Pax vobiscum« got the two contending powers quieted down; and, after a proper salutation from me, we began our talk.
Mrs. Freeman, wife of one of the English secretaries, told W. that Queen Victoria had so enjoyed her talk with him»quite as if I were talking with one of my own ministers.«
« «No, hang it, don’t bring boys; there‘s no good in boys; they stop the talk downstairs, and the ladies don’t want ’em in the drawing—room.
We whet our conscience on our neighbors‘ faults, as sober Spartans were made by the spectacle of drunken Helots;though he who makes habitual talk about his neighbors‘ faults whets his conscience across the edge.
They liked her talk.
When he finished his talk, he said, «Mary, won’t you speak to these people?« Mary stood up.
But she could not overhear their talk.
«Don’t talk fool talk,« said Lowrie.
«Jetson,« muttered Dan, as the other midshipman came over by him, «I shall need a little talk with you at the early convenience of us both.
In these conversations, with wonderful perseverance, Major Dobbin would always manage to bring the talk round to the subject of Amelia.
There followed much talk of the nature of this treasure, whether it was to be sought or conveyed, bought, stolen, or ravished in fair fight.
But as the baby made no further sound, she too, returned to her sewing; and they sat bending their heads over their work round the table, and continued their talk.
This plan, in a great measure, realizes the advice of Lord Bacon, who says, «Read not to contradict and refute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
Through it all, both Pros and Johnnie attempted to lead the talk around to some information which might be of use to them.
Though the affair was but a whim of youth, more odious than poetical, it caused some talk, and raised around the extravagant host the haze of a mystery, suggesting fantasies of irreligion and horror.
« In an instant Milly‘s gravity disappeared, and a little time afterwards she was laughing gleefully as she was being trotted round the stable—yard on a large bay mare; but she said to her nurse when she came in, «Major Lovell is very nice, but very funny, and I can’t always understand his talk, he says such difficult things.
«You see, Harry, it‘s the free City College, and« «I know that free talk.
« As for myself, I confess I shared none of these forebodings, and welcomed the chance to turn our talk to a more cheerful subject.
By and by Miss Grant resumed her talk about curtains, and when they had agreed about the material that ought to wear best Barbara looked at her watch.