ELOQUENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eloquent mean? 

• ELOQUENT (adjective)
  The adjective ELOQUENT has 1 sense:

1. expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively

  Familiarity information: ELOQUENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELOQUENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively

Synonyms:

eloquent; facile; fluent; silver; silver-tongued; smooth-spoken

Context example:

silver speech

Similar:

articulate (expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language)

Derivation:

elocute (declaim in an elocutionary manner)

eloquence (powerful and effective language)

 Context examples 

“I have heard you grow eloquent over the brave trade-wind.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Its emptiness spoke eloquent to make certain what I knew.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She did not speak, but she looked up at him with a face made very eloquent by happiness, and a smile which said, "No one can refuse me anything today."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mr. Collins was eloquent in her praise.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He is eloquent and persuasive, and once his words had even power over my heart; but trust him not.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Surely, he thought to himself, my glad rags in themselves are eloquent advertisement of my need.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The impossibility of not doing everything in the world to make Fanny Price happy, or of ceasing to love Fanny Price, was of course the groundwork of his eloquent answer.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mr Shepherd was eloquent on the subject; pointing out all the circumstances of the Admiral's family, which made him peculiarly desirable as a tenant.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

You don't remember your own eloquent expressions, Master Copperfield; but I remember how you said one day that everybody must admire her, and how I thanked you for it!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And when, released, he sprang to his feet, his mouth laughing, his eyes eloquent, his throat vibrant with unuttered sound, and in that fashion remained without movement, John Thornton would reverently exclaim, God! you can all but speak!

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)