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outspoken

outspoken adjective: speaking, or spoken, freely, openly, or boldly; vocal; frank. Also the past participle of outspeak.

Adjective

outspoken (comparative more outspoken, superlative most outspoken)

  1. Speaking, or spoken, freely, openly, or boldly; vocal; frank.
    • an outspoken man
    • an outspoken rebuke

Also used as

outspoken is also the past participle of outspeak.

outspoken meaning in Hindi, Gujarati and Odia

outspoken in Hindi

speaking, or spoken, freely, openly, or boldly; vocal
मुँहफट mũhphaṭ

outspoken in Gujarati

speaking, or spoken, freely, openly, or boldly; vocal
આખાબોલું ākhābolũ

outspoken in Odia

ସ୍ପଷ୍ଟବାଦୀ

Examples of outspoken in a sentence

  • Critics were vehemently outspoken; but while they fretted about looks, they missed the cleverer points in the design itself.1954 November, Frank Hewitt, “The First Decade of British 4-6-0 Locomotives—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 752:
  • He is outspoken and talks a million miles a minute, his rapid hand movements expressing a range of emotions.2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 14 Apr...
  • The late Professor Pat White was an outspoken critic.2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53:

All 14 example sentences with outspoken

Forms of outspoken

comparativemore outspoken
superlativemost outspoken

Origin of outspoken

From outspeak, equivalent to out- + spoken.

Words formed from outspoken

Questions about outspoken

What does outspoken mean?
Outspoken means speaking, or spoken, freely, openly, or boldly; vocal; frank.
What is outspoken in Hindi?
Outspoken in Hindi is मुँहफट (mũhphaṭ). See Outspoken meaning in Hindi.
How do you use outspoken in a sentence?
Critics were vehemently outspoken; but while they fretted about looks, they missed the cleverer points in the design itself.
What part of speech is outspoken?
Outspoken is an adjective.

Words near outspoken in the dictionary

  1. outsplendour
  2. outsplendoured
  3. outsplendouring
  4. outsplendours
  5. outspoke
  6. outspoken
  7. outspokenly
  8. outspokenness
  9. outspokennesses
  10. outspook
  11. outspooked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outspoken (page history and authors); outspoken (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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