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Articulate vs Hyperarticulate - What's the difference?

articulate | hyperarticulate |

As adjectives the difference between articulate and hyperarticulate

is that articulate is clear, effective while hyperarticulate is extremely articulate.

As a noun articulate

is an animal of the subkingdom Articulata.

As a verb articulate

is to make clear or effective.

articulate

English

(Articulation)

Etymology 1

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Adjective

(en adjective)
  • clear, effective
  • especially, speaking in a clear or effective manner
  • able to bend or hinge at certain points or intervals
  • Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • Related to human speech, as distinct from the vocalisation of animals.
  • * 1728 , James Knapton and John Knapton, Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences , page 146:
    • Brutes cannot form articulate'' Sounds, cannot ''articulate the Sounds of the Voice, excepting some few Birds, as the Parrot, Pye, &c.
    Synonyms
    * (good at speaking) eloquent, well-spoken

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.

    • Etymology 2

    From the adjective.

    Verb

    (articulat)
  • To make clear or effective.
  • To speak clearly; to enunciate.
    • I wish he’d articulate his words more clearly.
  • To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.
    • I like this painting, but I can’t articulate why.
  • To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.
    • an articulated bus
  • (music) to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.
    • Articulate that passage heavily.
  • (anatomy) to form a joint or connect by joints
    • The lower jaw articulates with the skull at the temporomandibular joint.
  • (obsolete) To treat or make terms.
    • (Shakespeare)
    Derived terms
    *
    Related terms
    * articulation * pseudoarticulated * pseudoarticulation

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    * * English heteronyms ----

    hyperarticulate

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Extremely articulate
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 8, author=Steven Greenhouse, title=Two Unions in Marriage Now Face Divorce Talks, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The fight is led by two hyperarticulate heavyweights, both Ivy League graduates, each using his decades of experience in battling corporations to clobber the other. }}