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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

adj. total, complete, entire; extreme, unusual; unqualified; stark, sheer, downright, absolute.

See completion, greatness, certainty. —v. t. speak, voice; pronounce, express, enunciate, deliver; issue, emit. See speech, disclosure.

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(Roget's IV) modif.

Syn. complete, total, thorough; see absolute 1 .

v.

Syn. pronounce, talk, express, come out with, articulate, voice, whisper, mutter, shout, exclaim, enunciate, air, speak, tell, declaim, phonate, disclose, declare, say, phrase, word, assert, affirm, asseverate, ejaculate, vocalize, proclaim, give tongue to, recite, broach, blurt out, let fall, announce.

Syn.- utter implies the communication of an idea or feeling by means of vocal sounds, such as words, exclamations, etc. [ he uttered a sigh of relief ] ; express , the broadest of these terms, suggests a revealing of ideas, feelings, one's personality, etc. by means of speech, action, or creative work [ to express oneself in music ] ; voice suggests expression through words, either spoken or written [voicing one's opinions in letters to the editor ] ; broach suggests the utterance or mention of an idea to someone for the first time [ I'll broach the subject to her at dinner ] ; enunciate suggests the announcement or open attestation of some idea [ to enunciate a theory, doctrine, etc. ]

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(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

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v.

speak, say, vocalize, emit, articulate, enunciate, voice, state, verbalize, assert, declare, shout, come out with, mouth.

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thorough, complete, absolute, outright, out-and-out, total, sheer, pure, perfect, unmitigated.

ANT.: partial, rather

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(Roget's Thesaurus II) verb 1. To produce or make (speech sounds): articulate, enunciate, pronounce, say, vocalize. See WORDS. 2. To put into words: articulate, communicate, convey, declare, express, say, state, talk, tell, vent, verbalize, vocalize, voice. Idiom: give tongue (or vent or voice) to. See WORDS.

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(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective Completely such, without qualification or exception: absolute, all-out, arrant, complete, consummate, crashing, damned, dead, downright, flat, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plain, pure, sheer2, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unbounded, unequivocal, unlimited, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unreserved. Informal: flat-out, positive. Chiefly British: blooming. See BIG, LIMITED.