speech defect

Questions about speech defect

What is another word for speech defect?

It depends which speech defect you mean. In the sense “a disorder of oral speech”, the synonyms are speech disorder, defect of speech. 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 speech defect?

WordNet records no antonym for speech defect. 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 speech defect 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 speech defect

• Full entry for speech defectAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for speech defectWhether 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.