Dictionary 1. (p. p.) of Speak.2. (a.) Uttered in speech; delivered by word of mouth; oral; as, a spoken narrative; the spoken word. 3. (a.) Characterized by a certain manner or style in speaking; -- often in composition; as, a pleasant-spoken man. Thesaurus articulate articulated colloquial common conversational enunciated everyday familiar informal lingual linguistic nonstandard nuncupative oral parol pronounced said sonant sounded speak speech substandard traditional uneducated unliterary unstudied unwritten uttered verbal vernacular viva voce vocal vocalized voiced voiceful word-of-mouth |