free-spoken
free-spoken adjective: characterized by direct and open expression of views, feelings, etc.
Adjective
free-spoken (comparative more free-spoken, superlative most free-spoken)
- Characterized by direct and open expression of views, feelings, etc.
- He was a very free-spoken man (the gentry of those days were much prouder than at present), and used to say to me in his haughty easy way, "Hang it, Mr. Barry, you have no more manners than a barber."1844, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 13, in Barry Lyndon
- You can imagine what fairly free-spoken girls will ask when they come to the point of not caring what they say.1915, Joseph Conrad, chapter 8, in Victory: An Island Tale
- Synonyms:
- candid, frank, free-speaking, outspoken, unreserved
Examples of free-spoken in a sentence
- She had views of her own and was free-spoken to a fault.1998, Roland Huntford, Nansen: The Explorer as Hero, ch. 1 (at nytimes.com)
- Look at 21st-century Britons, tongue-tied in conversation, groping for some PC euphemism (“If I’m allowed to say that…”) in what was once the most iconically free-spoken country on earth.2009 November 9, Gerald Warner, “Funeral in Berlin—of freedom”, in The Telegraph, retrieved 05 Jun 2014:
Synonyms of free-spoken
Forms of free-spoken
| comparative | more free-spoken |
|---|---|
| superlative | most free-spoken |
Questions about free-spoken
- What does free-spoken mean?
- Free-spoken means characterized by direct and open expression of views, feelings, etc.
- How do you use free-spoken in a sentence?
- She had views of her own and was free-spoken to a fault.
- What part of speech is free-spoken?
- Free-spoken is an adjective.
Words near free-spoken in the dictionary
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