fluent

fluent
    adj 1: smooth and unconstrained in movement; "a long, smooth
           stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid grace
           of a ballerina" [syn: {fluent}, {fluid}, {liquid},
           {smooth}]
    2: expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to
       dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech" [syn:
       {eloquent}, {facile}, {fluent}, {silver}, {silver-tongued},
       {smooth-spoken}]
    

Fluent \Flu"ent\, a. [L. fluens, -entis, p. pr. of fluere to
   flow; cf. Gr. ? to boil over. Cf. {Fluctuate}, {Flux}.]
   1. Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily
      moving.
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   2. Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words
      at command; and uttering them with facility and
      smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble;
      smooth; -- said of language; as, fluent speech.
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            With most fluent utterance.           --Denham.
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            Fluent as the flight of a swallow is the sultan's
            letter.                               --De Quincey.
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Fluent \Flu"ent\, n.
   1. A current of water; a stream. [Obs.]
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   2. [Cf. F. fluente.] (Math.) A variable quantity, considered
      as increasing or diminishing; -- called, in the modern
      calculus, the {function} or {integral}.
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133 Moby Thesaurus words for "fluent":
      affluent, all jaw, apt, articulate, ascending, axial, back,
      back-flowing, backward, balanced, candid, chatty, communicative,
      concinnate, concinnous, confluent, conversational, coursing,
      cursive, decurrent, defluent, descending, diffluent, down-trending,
      downward, drifting, easy, effortless, effusive, elegant, eloquent,
      euphonic, euphonical, euphonious, expansive, expressive, facile,
      felicitous, flip, flowing, fluid, fluidal, fluidic, fluxible,
      fluxile, fluxional, fluxionary, fluxive, flying, frank, gabby,
      garrulous, gassy, glib, going, gossipy, graceful, gregarious,
      gulfy, gushing, gushy, gyrational, gyratory, harmonious, juicy,
      liquid, liquidy, long-winded, loquacious, mazy, meandering,
      measured, mounting, multiloquent, multiloquious, natural, newsy,
      ordered, orderly, overtalkative, passing, pleasing, plunging,
      polished, pouring, profluent, progressive, prolix, prompt, quick,
      racing, ready, reflowing, refluent, regressive, retrogressive,
      rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, runny, rushing,
      sappy, serpentine, sideward, sinking, slick, sluggish, smooth,
      smooth-sounding, smooth-spoken, soaring, sociable, streaming,
      succulent, surging, surgy, sweet, symmetrical, talkative, talky,
      tidal, tripping, up-trending, upward, verbose, vocal, voluble,
      vortical, watery, well-spoken, windy