vocal

vocal is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices.
2. adjective. Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral; as, vocal melody; vocal prayer.
3. adjective. Of or pertaining to a vowel or voice sound; also, /poken with tone, intonation, and resonance; sonant; sonorous; -- said of certain articulate sounds.
4. adjective. Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng; sonant; intonated; voiced. See Voice, and Vowel, also Guide to Pronunciation, // 199-202.
5. adjective. Of or pertaining to a vowel; having the character of a vowel; vowel.
6. noun. A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; -- distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal.
7. noun. A man who has a right to vote in certain elections.
8. noun. a short musical composition with words

   "a successful musical must have at least three good songs"

   Synonyms: song

9. noun. music intended to be performed by one or more singers, usually with instrumental accompaniment
10. adjective. given to expressing yourself freely or insistently

    "outspoken in their opposition to segregation"

    "a vocal assembly"

    Synonyms: outspoken

11. adjective. full of the sound of voices

    "a playground vocal with the shouts and laughter of children"

12. adjective. having or using the power to produce speech or sound

    "vocal organs"

    "all vocal beings hymned their praise"

13. adjective. relating to or designed for or using the singing voice

    "vocal technique"

    "the vocal repertoire"

Synonyms

song, outspoken

Common word forms

vocals, vocally, vocalise, vocality, vocalize, vocaller, vocalness

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