Further to my previous question about the meaning of the word, ‘crisis an hour mentality,’ there was the following line in the article of Washington Post under the title, “For Obama, and Democrats, it’s crunch time.”
“His mea culpa was all the more notable because it came only a few
days after he had attempted to put a retrospective asterisk on those
original assurances, enunciated as he sought to sell his controversial
health-care plan to a skeptical public.
According to Oxford Advanced Learners’ Dictionary, the word ‘enunciate’ means ‘to say or pronounce words clearly.
Is there opposite single word(s) (e.g. mumble) to say ‘to say or pronounce words unclearly?
Best Answer
The closest I can find would be mispronounce, but that has to do with pronunciation, so it obviously isn't the answer. Denunciate means to condemn. Annunciate has to do with announcing something. E as a prefix is a variation of Ex-, meaning out. I'm starting to see some similarities here. Possibly, the word we could use would be Non-enunciate or disenunciate. Nonenunciate seems like the better answer as Non means not. I've been researching for quite a bit now and it seems that there is no invented word for the opposite of enunciation. There was a result for the Urban Dictionary when I searched disenunciate on Google, but I'm not comfortable with using the Urban Dictionary for references on this website.
TL;DR: No, there is not a single opposite word for 'enunciate.' But, you can put prefixes in front of it and people likely will understand.