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What is the adjective for speech?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs speak, speech, speechify and spoke which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

speaking
  1. Used in speaking.
  2. Expressive; eloquent.
  3. Involving speaking.
  4. Having the ability of speech.
    1. (in compounds) Having competence in a language.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “This was too weird for words: a speaking device waiting for an answer.”
      “The sight was more speaking than any speech could be.”
speakerless
  1. Without a speaker (narrator).
  2. Without a speaker (orator).
  3. Without speakers.
speakable
  1. That can be spoken; utterable, verbalizable.
  2. Acceptable as a topic of discussion; not subject to taboo.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Such threats aim to define the limits of the public sphere by setting limits on the speakable.”
      “And thus it is speakable or tangible only as perceived in the changes it effects.”
      “Michael went silent, turning his thoughts into an intelligent and speakable form.”
speechless
  1. not speaking; not knowing what to say; silent, especially due to surprise, amazement, etc.
  2. (archaic) Synonym of unspeakable
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “She stood speechless, gazing upon this piteous household ruin, wherein were engulfed so many memories.”
      “I stared at Bob, speechless at the news.”
      “Priam's face bore the speechless expression of a man whose world had been destroyed.”
speechworthy
  1. Worthy of speech or of being spoken.
  2. Fit for a speech.
spake
  1. (obsolete) Quiet; tame.
  2. (obsolete) Ready; prompt.
spoken
speechy
  1. Full of speech or words; verbose.
speakerly
  1. Befitting a speaker or orator.
  2. Examples:
    1. “His plea during the recent recess for more grown-up behaviour in PMQs was a Speakerly form of naming and shaming.”
spokeless
  1. Without spokes (parts of a wheel).
  2. Synonyms:
speechlike
  1. Resembling natural human speech
speakerlike
  1. Resembling a speaker.
spoked
  1. having spokes
  2. Examples:
    1. “The hub motor's shaft is stationary and the outer casing spins, turning the rim and tire to which it is spoked.”
      “The last few divers onto this wreck were faced with a spoked wheel of distance lines radiating out in all directions.”
      “It was a brand new open-air touring car, with a white and black body, red seats, and red spoked wheels.”
speeching
  1. present participle of speech
speechified
speechifying
spoking
  1. present participle of spoke
  2. Synonyms:
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