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to speak of

to speak of phrase: sufficient; important or significant enough to be worth mentioning.

Phrase

to speak of

  1. (idiomatic, negative, usually) Sufficient; important or significant enough to be worth mentioning.
    • not enough to speak of
    • no [X] to speak of

to speak of meaning in Bengali and Sanskrit

to speak of in Bengali

পর্যাপ্ত

to speak of in Sanskrit

To speak of or to announce
उपन्यस्यति upanyasyati

Examples of to speak of in a sentence

  • Q: How many people heeded the advice to bring an umbrella? A: Not enough to speak of.
  • There was no air conditioning to speak of. [ = There was some, but it was wholly inadequate.]
  • 'No raillery,' said he, 'if I were always as young, I might yet do something to speak of.1792, Jean François Marmontel, C. Dennis, Robert Lloyd, Moral Tales By M. Marmontel Translated From the French by C. Dennis and R. Lloyd...
  • There were no tall buildings to speak of, certainly nothing in the way of skyscrapers, no brownstones […]1980, Charlotte Vale Allen, Promises, page 79:
  • There was no furniture or carpet to speak of.2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

Questions about to speak of

What does to speak of mean?
To speak of means sufficient; important or significant enough to be worth mentioning.
What is to speak of in Bengali?
To speak of in Bengali is পর্যাপ্ত. See To speak of meaning in Bengali.
How do you use to speak of in a sentence?
Q: How many people heeded the advice to bring an umbrella? A: Not enough to speak of.
What part of speech is to speak of?
To speak of is a phrase.

Words near to speak of in the dictionary

  1. to someone's credit
  2. to someone's face
  3. to someone's liking
  4. to someone's taste
  5. to spare
  6. to speak of
  7. to start off with
  8. to start with
  9. to taste
  10. to tell the truth
  11. to tell you the truth

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: to speak of (page history and authors); to speak of (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); उपन्यस्यति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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