[Vocabulary] Articulate

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Kotfor

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What does it mean.

He is an articulate man.
 

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"Eloquent" has a sense of being powerful and persuasive that "articulate" does not.
 

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Kotfor, after 370 posts, I'm sure you're aware of the OneLook site. If not, you need to bookmark it immediately. It's free.

What does it mean?

He is an articulate man.

Before asking questions like this, please give us reason to believe that you have made some effort to find out the answer for yourself.
 

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What does [strike]it[/strike] "He is an articulate man" mean?

Please see my amendment to the construction of your question.
 
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"Eloquent" has a sense of being powerful and persuasive that "articulate" does not.

Obviously most words have their specific meaning and usage, and you are right in your comment, but I knew "eloquent" as a synonym of articulate, and I see that many thesaurus include it among other synonyms of articulate.

Please have a look at these:

http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/articulate
http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/articulate[adjective]
http://www.synonym.com/synonyms/articulate/
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Articulate

Anyway, to define the word without including synonyms, possible synonyms or related words, just "endowed with the power of speech".
 

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Obviously most words have their specific meaning and usage, and you are right in your comment, but I knew "eloquent" as a synonym of articulate, and I see that many thesaurus include it among other synonyms of articulate.

Please have a look at these:

http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/articulate
http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/articulate[adjective]
http://www.synonym.com/synonyms/articulate/
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Articulate

Anyway, to define the word without including synonyms, possible synonyms or related words, just "endowed with the power of speech".

So, in fact, your post at #2 was not at all helpful; giving, as it did, the misleading information that it had the one meaning that you attributed to it.
 
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So, in fact, your post at #2 was not at all helpful; giving, as it did, the misleading information that it had the one meaning that you attributed to it.

Is "eloquent" a synonym of "articulate" or not?

Obviously, all synonyms have specific meaning and implications, but they are synonyms because they mean pretty much the same thing with only a tiny difference or because they converge on a same meaning.

If so, my first post includes a synonym in the description as a way of facilitating its understanding, where the two of them refer to an effective user of language.
 
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