Eloquent
Eloquent adjective - Able to express oneself clearly and well.
Telling is a synonym for eloquent in expressive topic. In some cases you can use "Telling" instead an adjective "Eloquent", when it comes to topics like having a skillful way with words.
Nearby Words: eloquence, eloquently
Telling
Telling adjective - Having the power to persuade.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- indicative and eloquent
- indicative and telling
- expressive and eloquent
- expressive and telling
- forceful and eloquent
- forceful and telling
- effective and eloquent
- effective and telling
- convincing and eloquent
- convincing and telling
- powerful and eloquent
- powerful and telling
- potent and eloquent
- potent and telling
Both words in one sentence
- Season three House episode "The Jerk" has its unlikeable teenaged patient delivering a rather eloquent version of this trope, telling his mother: "Get yourself coited."
Source: You Need to Get Laid - Eloquent in My Native Tongue: Mary invokes this as a form of Obfuscating Stupidity, telling Coco that she didn't mean to say something mean about Magda she just mistranslated an English idiom into German!
Source: Series / Schloss Einstein
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