outspoken

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
outspoken
    adj 1: given to expressing yourself freely or insistently;
           "outspoken in their opposition to segregation"; "a vocal
           assembly" [syn: {outspoken}, {vocal}]
    2: 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" [syn: {blunt}, {candid}, {forthright}, {frank},
       {free-spoken}, {outspoken}, {plainspoken}, {point-blank},
       {straight-from-the-shoulder}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Outspoken \Out*spo"ken\, a.
   Speaking, or spoken, freely, openly, candidly, or boldly; as,
   an outspoken man; an outspoken rebuke. -- {Out*spo"ken*ness},
   n.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
105 Moby Thesaurus words for "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-spoken

    

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