plainspoken
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4.3
- adjective
- /ˈpleɪnˌspoʊkən/
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- During the meeting, he was plainspoken, expressing his opinions clearly without any jargon.
- very plainspoken
- so plainspoken
- plainspoken style
Examples
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Though they performed widely at universities, the Guerrilla Girls bypassed the high-flown discourse increasingly attaching to gender and identity theory, insisting instead on a plainspoken, often humorous approach geared to a general art public.
Academic text (2011) -
I'm plainspoken and straightforward.
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Christ was plainspoken and perfectly capable of correcting errors.
Blog text (14) -
There's ever been a woman more plainspoken and down-to-earth than my mother.
Fiction book (1999) -
Candidates sometimes try to lower expectations of their own debate performance by claiming that they are just humble, plainspoken folks while their opponents are the second coming of Cicero.
Blog text (10) -
He is widely known in the apple country as plainspoken and opinionated; he has no sympathy for the United States Trade Representative, Bill Clinton, or the media.
Fiction book (1999) -
I suspect, however, that Leonhard intended to suggest that philosophy has become too complex nowadays, having grown beyond the plainspoken, straightforward set of ideas that any music educator could easily understand.
Academic text (1993) -
For most of its history, astronomy has remained plainspoken and has employed descriptive methods of inquiry that greatly resembled the ones used in botany.
Academic text (2005) -
There were also lawyers who did their jobs, only to find their voices lost in torrents of money, rationalization, or plainspoken hostility toward the rule of regulation.
Academic text (2009) -
In Greetings from Tim Buckley, Tim's legendary status as a musician and the plainspoken beauty of his melodies hover over Jeff like an ambivalent cloud.
Blog text (28)
Synonyms
104
3.4
Open and honest when giving opinions or feelings
100
3.8
Speaking in a direct, plain way that can sound rude
83
4.6
Open and honest, telling the truth even when it is hard
78
4.2
To speak freely and directly about opinions or feelings
32
5.5
Being direct and honest when talking or acting
19
5.6
Direct and blunt without trying to hide the truth
Speaking in a direct and open way without hiding opinions
Direct and honest in speech that does not hide what you think
Antonyms
How Direct
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Plainspoken is made of plain ('simple' or 'clear') and spoken ('said aloud'), so it paints the picture of words that are easy to understand. That's why a plainspoken person 'says' things directly and honestly, without fancy language or hiding the meaning.