Usually means: Speech abruptly stops, emotion implied.
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  1. aposiopetic: Merriam-Webster
  2. aposiopetic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. aposiopetic: Collins English Dictionary
  4. aposiopetic: Vocabulary.com
  5. aposiopetic: Wordnik
  6. aposiopetic: Wiktionary
  7. aposiopetic: Dictionary.com
  8. aposiopetic: Rhymezone
  9. aposiopetic: FreeDictionary.org
  10. aposiopetic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. aposiopetic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  (rhetoric) Of or pertaining to aposiopesis.

Similar:
aposiopestic, apostrophic, prosiopetic, antiphrastic, aporematic, apocopic, antiperistatical, apologetick, apophthegmatic, apophthegmatical, more...

Opposite:
loquacious, verbose, garrulous

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Similar:
aposiopestic, apostrophic, prosiopetic, antiphrastic, aporematic, apocopic, antiperistatical, apologetick, apophthegmatic, apophthegmatical, more...

Opposite:
loquacious, verbose, garrulous



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