Outspoken

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Outspoken \Out*spo"ken\, a.
     Speaking, or spoken, freely, openly, candidly, or boldly; as,
     an outspoken man; an outspoken rebuke. -- {Out*spo"ken*ness},
     n.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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