1 [VN] (formal) to express or explain your thoughts or feelings clearly in words:
She struggled to articulate her thoughts. * It is the school's duty to articulate its practices to parents.
2 to speak, pronounce or play sth in a clear way:
[V] He was too drunk to articulate properly. * [VN] Every note was carefully articulated. [also Vspeech]
3 [V] ~ (with sth) (written) to be related to sth so that together the two parts form a whole:
[V] These courses are designed to articulate with university degrees.
4 (technical) ~ (with sth) to be joined to sth else by a joint, so that movement is possible; to join sth in this way:
[V] bones that articulate with others * [VN] a robot with articulated limbs
Part of speech: adjective
1 (of a person) good at expressing ideas or feelings clearly in words:
He was unusually articulate for a ten-year-old. * She is the most articulate critic of government policy.
2 (of speech) clearly expressed or pronounced:
All we could hear were loud sobs, but no articulate words.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for articulate is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is articulate a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, articulate is tagged as verb.
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