Synonyms of the word stammer


STAMMERBUMBLE - FALTER - MOUTH - SPEAK - STUTTER - TALK - UTTER - VERBALISE - VERBALIZE

stammer

  • v. To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech.
  • n. The involuntary repetition of a sound in speech.

bumble

  • n. A confusion, jumble.
  • v. To act in an inept, clumsy or inexpert manner; to make mistakes.
  • n. A bumble-bee.
  • n. (Britain, dialect) The bittern.
  • v. (intransitive) To boom, as a bittern; to buzz, as a fly.

falter

  • n. unsteadiness.
  • v. To waver or be unsteady.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
  • v. To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
  • v. To stumble.
  • v. (figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
  • v. To hesitate in purpose or action.
  • v. To cleanse or sift, as barley.

mouth

  • n. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
  • n. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
  • n. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
  • n. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
  • n. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
  • n. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
  • n. (obsolete) Cry; voice.
  • n. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
  • n. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
  • v. (transitive) To speak; to utter.
  • v. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
  • v. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
  • v. (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
  • v. (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
  • v. (obsolete) To make mouths at.

speak

  • v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
  • v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
  • v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
  • v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
  • v. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
  • v. (transitive) To utter.
  • v. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
  • v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
  • v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
  • n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
  • n. Speach, conversation.
  • n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

stutter

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.
  • v. (intransitive) To exhaust a gas with difficulty.
  • n. A speech disorder characterised by stuttering.
  • n. (obsolete) One who stutters; a stammerer.

talk

  • n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
  • n. A lecture.
  • n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
  • n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
  • n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
  • n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
  • v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
  • v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
  • v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

utter

  • adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
  • adj. (obsolete) Outward.
  • adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
  • v. (transitive) To say.
  • v. (transitive) To use the voice.
  • v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
  • v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
  • adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

verbalise

  • v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.

verbalize

  • v. To speak or to use words to express.
  • v. (grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.

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