Outspoken \Out*spo"ken\, a.
Speaking, or spoken, freely, openly, candidly, or boldly; as,
an outspoken man; an outspoken rebuke. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
outspoken
adj 1: given to expressing yourself freely or insistently;
"outspoken in their opposition to segregation"; "a
vocal assembly" [syn: 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, plainspoken, point-blank,
straight-from-the-shoulder]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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