well-spoken

comparative more well-spoken · superlative most well-spoken

1. Eloquent and able with regards to speech.

   They've obviously never met before, but are getting on like a house on fire. Both are well-spoken and versed in the Queen's English.

   2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 52

   3 more examples

   You give the well-spoken young man the time. The well-spoken young man, keeping well up with you, resumes: "I am aware sir that it is a liberty to intrude a further question on a gentleman walking for his entertainment […]

   1860, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, volume 3, page 231

   To get a minimum-wage employee, the company settled for a woman barely out of high school who was not well-spoken, and while she didn't cost much, the problem was that she was the first impression callers had of this multimillion dollar company.

   2001, Mark F. Beck, Theory and Practice of Therapeutic Massage

   However well spoken a lawyer might be and however powerful an orator he may be, at the end the judge will make a decision based on legal statutes.

   2009, Ata Akiner, Burhan Apaydin, In Pursuit of Justice, page 153

   Synonyms: articulate, eloquent