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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective outspoken has 2 senses
- outspoken(s = adj.all) vocal - given to expressing yourself freely or insistently; "outspoken in their opposition to segregation"; "a vocal assembly" Derived form noun outspokenness1
- outspoken(s = adj.all) blunt, candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder - characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight shooting"; "a blunt New England farmer"; "I gave them my candid opinion"; "forthright criticism"; "a forthright approach to the problem"; "tell me what you think--and you may just as well be frank"; "it is possible to be outspoken without being rude"; "plainspoken and to the point"; "a point-blank accusation" Derived form noun outspokenness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
outspoken, a.
Speaking, or spoken, freely, openly, candidly, or boldly; as, an outspoken man; an outspoken rebuke. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
outspoken, adj. given to or involving plain speaking; frank in stating one's opinions.
Derivative
outspokenly adv. outspokenness n.
THESAURUS
outspoken
accessible, approachable, articulate, artless, bluff, blunt, bold, born yesterday, brash, broad, brusque, candid, childlike, communicative, confiding, conversable, crude, demonstrative, direct, downright, effusive, eloquent, expansive, explicit, extroverted, forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free hand, free-acting, free-going, free-moving, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, freehanded, genuine, gossipy, guileless, heart-to-heart, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, loud-speaking, loud-spoken, naive, newsy, open, openhearted, outgoing, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, plainspoken, point-blank, round, self-revealing, self-revelatory, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, sociable, soft-speaking, soft-spoken, speaking, specific, straight, straight-out, straightforward, strident, tactless, talkative, talking, transparent, true-speaking, trustful, trusting, unambiguous, unceremonious, unchecked, unconstrained, undiplomatic, unequivocal, unguarded, unhampered, uninhibited, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unsecretive, unshrinking, unsilent, unsophisticated, unsubtle, unsuppressed, unsuspicious, unwary, vocal, well-spokenROGET THESAURUS
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Speech
N speech, faculty of speech, locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle, effusion, oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration, speechifying, soliloquy, allocution, conversation, salutatory : screed: valedictory, oratory, elocution, eloquence, rhetoric, declamation, grandiloquence, multiloquence, burst of eloquence, facundity, flow of words, command of words, command of language, copia verborum, power of speech, gift of the gab, usus loquendi, speaker, spokesman, prolocutor, interlocutor, mouthpiece, Hermes, orator, oratrix, oratress, Demosthenes, Cicero, rhetorician, stump orator, platform orator, speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore, speaking, spoken, oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken, eloquent, elocutionary, oratorical, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiloquent, talkative, Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian, orally, by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of, quoth he, said he, action is eloquence, pour the full tide of eloquence along, she speaks poignards and every word stabs, speech is but broken light upon the depth of the u, to try thy eloquence now 'tis time.Artlessness
N artlessness, nature, simplicity, innocence, bonhomie, naivete, abandon, candor, sincerity, singleness of purpose, singleness of heart, honesty, plain speaking, epanchement, rough diamond, matter of fact man, le palais de verite, enfant terrible, artless, natural, pure, native, confiding, simple, lain, inartificial, untutored, unsophisticated, ingenu, unaffected, naive, sincere, frank, open, open as day, candid, ingenuous, guileless, unsuspicious, honest, innocent, Arcadian, undesigning, straightforward, unreserved, aboveboard, simple-minded, single-minded, frank-hearted, open-hearted, single-hearted, simple-hearted, free-spoken, plain-spoken, outspoken, blunt, downright, direct, matter of fact, unpoetical, unflattering, in plain words, in plain English, without mincing the matter, not to mince the matter, Davus sum non Oedipus, liberavi animam meam, as frank as rain on cherry blossoms.Veracity
N veracity, truthfulness, frankness truth, sincerity, candor, unreserve, honesty, fidelity, plain dealing, bona fides, love of truth, probity, ingenuousness, the truth the whole truth and nothing but the trut, honest truth, sober truth, unvarnished tale, light of truth, truthful, true, veracious, veridical, scrupulous, sincere, candid, frank, open, straightforward, unreserved, open hearted, true hearted, simple-hearted, honest, trustworthy, undissembling &c (dissemble), guileless, pure, truth- loving, unperjured, true blue, as good as one's word, unaffected, unfeigned, bona fide, outspoken, ingenuous, undisguised, uncontrived, truly, in plain words, in truth, with truth, of a truth, in good truth, as the dial to the sun, as the needle to the pole, honor bright, troth, in good sooth, in good earnest, unfeignedly, with no nonsense, in sooth, sooth to say, bona fide, in foro conscientiae, without equivocation, cartes sur table, from the bottom of one's heart, by my troth, di il vero a affronterai il diavolo, Dichtung und Wahrheit, esto quod esse videris, magna est veritas et praevalet, that golden key that opes the palace of eternity, veritas odium parit, veritatis simplex oratio est, verite sans peur.
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