'speak up' definitions:
Definition of 'speak up'
(from WordNet)
verb
Express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation; "John spoke up at the meeting" [syn: opine, speak up, speak out, animadvert, sound off]
verb
Speak louder; raise one's voice; "The audience asked the lecturer to please speak up"
Synonyms of 'speak up'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affirm,
- affront,
- allege,
- announce,
- annunciate,
- appear,
- argue,
- assert,
- assever,
- asseverate,
- aver,
- avouch,
- avow,
- beard,
- bell the cat,
- bite the bullet,
- brave,
- brazen,
- brazen out,
- break silence,
- come forth,
- confront,
- contend,
- declare,
- enunciate,
- express,
- face,
- face the music,
- face up,
- face up to,
- front,
- have,
- have no secrets,
- hold,
- insist,
- issue a manifesto,
- lay down,
- maintain,
- manifesto,
- materialize,
- meet,
- meet boldly,
- meet head-on,
- open up,
- pipe up,
- predicate,
- proclaim,
- profess,
- pronounce,
- protest,
- put,
- put it,
- run the gauntlet,
- say,
- say out,
- set at defiance,
- set down,
- speak,
- speak out,
- stand for,
- stand on,
- stand up to,
- state,
- submit,
- take a stand,
- take the floor
Words containing 'speak up'
- Speak,
- Speaking,
- To speak of,
- To speak out,
- To speak with,
- so to speak,
- speak for,
- speak for itself,
- speak out,
- speak to,
- speak up for,
- speaking of,
- A speaking acquaintance,
- Evil speaking,
- Plain speaking,
- Speaking trumpet,
- Speaking tube,
- To be on speaking terms,
- To speak a ship,
- To speak by the book,
- To speak by the card,
- To speak daggers,
- To speak fair,
- To speak for Buncombe,
- To speak well for,
- broadly speaking,
- manner of speaking,
- properly speaking,
- public speaking,
- speak in tongues,
- speak of the devil,
- strictly speaking,
- English-speaking,
- French-speaking,
- German-speaking,
- Home-speaking,
- bantu-speaking,
- flemish-speaking,
- gaelic-speaking,
- icelandic-speaking,
- italian-speaking,
- japanese-speaking,
- kannada-speaking,
- livonian-speaking,
- oscan-speaking,
- russian-speaking,
- samoyedic-speaking,
- semitic-speaking,
- siouan-speaking,
- spanish-speaking,
- turkic-speaking,
- finno-ugric-speaking