gesticulate

Questions about gesticulate

What is another word for gesticulate?

It depends which gesticulate you mean. In the sense “show, express or direct through movement”, the synonyms are gesture, motion. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of gesticulate?

WordNet records no antonym for gesticulate. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for gesticulate come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of gesticulate

• Full entry for gesticulateAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for gesticulateWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.