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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

speaking openly without holding back or censor;

e.g. He was a free-spoken creature who didn't hold back when it came to what he believed in.

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Aboveboard

Candid

Childlike

Communicative

Direct

Forthcoming

Forthright

Foursquare

Frank

Honest

Open

Openhearted

Out-front

Outspoken

Plain

Plainspoken

Point-blank

Straight

Straightforward

Undesigning

Unguarded

Unreserved

Unsubtle

Up-front

Voluble

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Opposite Words

Ambiguous

Beguiling

Circuitous

Civil

Closemouthed

Considerate

Courteous

Deceitful

Deceptive

Delusive

Diplomatic

Dumb

Equivocal

Evasive

Fallacious

False

Insidious

Laconic

Politic

Quiet

Reserved

Restrained

Reticent

Self-contained

Silent

Specious

Subtile

Taciturn

Tactful

Tight-lipped

Trickish

Uncandid

Uncommunicative

Unforthcoming

Untrustworthy

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Related Words

Abrupt

Artless

Bluff

Blunt

Brusque

Chatty

Crusty

Curt

Direct

Downright

Earnest

Forthright

Foursquare

Gabby

Garrulous

Genuine

Gruff

Guileless

Honest

Impertinent

Impolite

Inconsiderate

Ingenuous

Innocent

Loquacious

Mouthy

Naive

Natural

Outgoing

Plain

Real

Rude

Sharp

Short

Simple

Sincere

Snippy

Straight

Straightforward

Tactless

Talkative

Talky

Thoughtless

True

Truthful

Unaffected

Unceremonious

Uncivil

Undesigning

Undiplomatic

Ungracious

Uninhibited

Unmannerly

Unpretentious

Unrestrained

Unsubtle

Veracious

Vocal

Vociferous

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