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say it: NOO-speek
newspeak is a noun meaning "deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public". It carries one recorded sense.
deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public
“the welfare state brought its own newspeak”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for newspeak come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.