pronounce
pronounce is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.
- transitive verb. To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.
- transitive verb. To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration.
- transitive verb. To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud.
- intransitive verb. To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly.
- intransitive verb. To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence.
- noun. Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation.
- verb. pronounce judgment on
"They labeled him unfit to work here"
- verb. speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way
"She pronounces French words in a funny way"
"I cannot say `zip wire'"
Synonyms
judge, label, articulate, enounce, enunciate, say
Common word forms
pronounced, pronouncer, pronounces, pronouncing, pronounceable, pronouncement, pronounceness
Words from these letters
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