Usually means: Expressive and persuasive in speech.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word eloquent:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. eloquent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. eloquent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. eloquent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. eloquent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. eloquent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Eloquent, eloquent: Wordnik
  7. eloquent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. eloquent: Wiktionary
  9. eloquent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. eloquent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. eloquent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Eloquent, eloquent: Dictionary.com
  13. eloquent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Eloquent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. eloquent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. eloquent: Rhymezone
  17. eloquent, eloquent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. eloquent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Eloquent: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  20. Eloquent: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. eloquent: Free Dictionary
  22. eloquent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. eloquent: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. eloquent: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eloquent: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. eloquent: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Eloquent: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Fluently persuasive and articulate.
▸ adjective:  Effective in expressing meaning by speech.
▸ adjective:  (medicine) Relating to areas in the brain that serve an identifiable neurological function, in which injury leads to focal deficits or disability.

Similar:
articulate, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken, facile, fluent, silver, well-spoken, persuasive, orate, speechworthy, more...

Opposite:
inarticulate, halting, tongue-tied, incoherent, awkward

Types:
flowery, grandiloquent, bombastic, circumlocutory, turgid, purple, grandiose, more...

Phrases:
wax eloquent, The Eloquent Peasant, Eloquent cortex, eloquent speaker, make an eloquent address, more...

Adjectives:
more, little, wondrous, classic, lobzang, the



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Similar:
articulate, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken, facile, fluent, silver, well-spoken, persuasive, orate, speechworthy, more...

Opposite:
inarticulate, halting, tongue-tied, incoherent, awkward

Types:
flowery, grandiloquent, bombastic, circumlocutory, turgid, purple, grandiose, more...

Phrases:
wax eloquent, The Eloquent Peasant, Eloquent cortex, eloquent speaker, make an eloquent address, not eloquent, opposite of eloquent, eloquent speaking, in a eloquent way, powerfully eloquent, waxed eloquent, more...

Adjectives:
more, little, wondrous, classic, lobzang, the



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