Fluent \Flu"ent\, a. [L. fluens, -entis, p. pr. of fluere to
flow; cf. Gr. ? to boil over. Cf. Fluctuate, Flux.]
1. Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily
moving.
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2. Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words
at command; and uttering them with facility and
smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble;
smooth; -- said of language; as, fluent speech.
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With most fluent utterance. --Denham.
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Fluent as the flight of a swallow is the sultan's
letter. --De Quincey.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fluent \Flu"ent\, n.
1. A current of water; a stream. [Obs.]
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2. [Cf. F. fluente.] (Math.) A variable quantity, considered
as increasing or diminishing; -- called, in the modern
calculus, the function or integral.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fluent
adj 1: easy and graceful in shape; "a yacht with long, fluent
curves"
2: smooth and unconstrained in movement; "a long, smooth
stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid grace of
a ballerina"; "liquid prose" [syn: flowing, fluid, liquid,
smooth]
3: expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to
dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech" [syn: eloquent,
facile, silver, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken]
WordNet (r) 2.0
133 Moby Thesaurus words for "fluent":
affluent, all jaw, apt, articulate, ascending, axial, back,
back-flowing, backward, balanced, candid, chatty, communicative,
concinnate, concinnous, confluent, conversational, coursing,
cursive, decurrent, defluent, descending, diffluent, down-trending,
downward, drifting, easy, effortless, effusive, elegant, eloquent,
euphonic, euphonical, euphonious, expansive, expressive, facile,
felicitous, flip, flowing, fluid, fluidal, fluidic, fluxible,
fluxile, fluxional, fluxionary, fluxive, flying, frank, gabby,
garrulous, gassy, glib, going, gossipy, graceful, gregarious,
gulfy, gushing, gushy, gyrational, gyratory, harmonious, juicy,
liquid, liquidy, long-winded, loquacious, mazy, meandering,
measured, mounting, multiloquent, multiloquious, natural, newsy,
ordered, orderly, overtalkative, passing, pleasing, plunging,
polished, pouring, profluent, progressive, prolix, prompt, quick,
racing, ready, reflowing, refluent, regressive, retrogressive,
rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, runny, rushing,
sappy, serpentine, sideward, sinking, slick, sluggish, smooth,
smooth-sounding, smooth-spoken, soaring, sociable, streaming,
succulent, surging, surgy, sweet, symmetrical, talkative, talky,
tidal, tripping, up-trending, upward, verbose, vocal, voluble,
vortical, watery, well-spoken, windy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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