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plainspoken

plainspoken adjective: speaking in a forthright manner.

Adjective

plainspoken (comparative more plainspoken, superlative most plainspoken)

  1. Speaking in a forthright manner.
    • He was a plainspoken fellow with plenty of amazing stories to tell.

plainspoken meaning in Bengali

plainspoken in Bengali

স্পষ্টভাষী উপায়ে কথা বলা

Forms of plainspoken

comparativemore plainspoken
superlativemost plainspoken
alternative formplain-spoken

Origin of plainspoken

From plain + spoken.

Words formed from plainspoken

Questions about plainspoken

What does plainspoken mean?
Plainspoken means speaking in a forthright manner.
What is plainspoken in Bengali?
Plainspoken in Bengali is স্পষ্টভাষী উপায়ে কথা বলা. See Plainspoken meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is plainspoken?
Plainspoken is an adjective.

Words near plainspoken in the dictionary

  1. plainsman
  2. plainsmen
  3. plainsong
  4. plainsongs
  5. plainspeople
  6. plainspoken
  7. plainspokenly
  8. plainspokenness
  9. plainswoman
  10. plainswomen
  11. plaint

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plainspoken (page history and authors); plainspoken (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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