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outspoken
adj. explicit, unreserved
  • abrupt
  • artless
  • blunt
  • calling spade a spade
  • candid
  • direct
  • forthright
  • frank
  • free
  • laying it on the line
  • open
  • plain
  • plain-spoken
  • point-blank
  • round
  • square
  • straightforward
  • strident
  • talking turkey
  • unceremonious
  • unequivocal
  • unreticent
  • up front
  • vocal

plain
adj. straightforward in speech
  • abrupt
  • artless
  • blunt
  • candid
  • direct
  • forthright
  • frank
  • guileless
  • honest
  • impolite
  • ingenuous
  • open
  • outspoken
  • rude
  • sincere

sincere
adj. straightforward, honest
  • aboveboard
  • actual
  • artless
  • bona fide
  • candid
  • dead-level
  • dear
  • devout
  • earnest
  • faithful
  • forthright
  • frank
  • genuine
  • guileless
  • heartfelt
  • honest to God
  • like it is
  • meant
  • natural
  • no fooling
  • no-nonsense
  • on the level
  • on the line
  • on up and up
  • open
  • outspoken
  • plain
  • pretensionless
  • real
  • regular
  • righteous
  • saintly
  • serious
  • square
  • sure enough
  • true
  • true-blue
  • trustworthy
  • twenty-four carat
  • unaffected
  • undesigning
  • undissembled
  • unfeigned
  • unpretentious
  • up-front
  • wholehearted

straight
adj. honest, fair
  • aboveboard
  • accurate
  • authentic
  • bald
  • blunt
  • candid
  • categorical
  • decent
  • equitable
  • fair and square
  • forthright
  • frank
  • good
  • honorable
  • just
  • law-abiding
  • moral
  • outright
  • plain
  • point-blank
  • reliable
  • respectable
  • straightforward
  • summary
  • trustworthy
  • unqualified
  • upright

straightforward
adj. honest
  • aboveboard
  • barefaced
  • candid
  • direct
  • forthright
  • frank
  • genuine
  • guileless
  • honorable
  • just
  • laid on the line
  • level
  • like it is
  • mellow
  • open
  • outspoken
  • plain
  • plain-dealing
  • pretenseless
  • right-on
  • sincere
  • square-shooting
  • straight
  • straight-arrow
  • talking turkey
  • truthful
  • unconcealed
  • undisguised
  • undissembled
  • undissembling
  • unequivocal
  • unvarnished
  • up front
  • upright
  • upstanding
  • veracious

transparent
adj. obvious, understandable
  • apparent
  • articulate
  • artless
  • candid
  • clear-cut
  • direct
  • distinct
  • distinguishable
  • easily seen
  • easy
  • evident
  • explicit
  • forthright
  • frank
  • guileless
  • honest
  • ingenuous
  • manifest
  • open
  • patent
  • perspicuous
  • plain
  • plain-spoken
  • recognizable
  • self-explanatory
  • sincere
  • straight
  • straightforward
  • unambiguous
  • undisguised
  • unequivocal
  • unmistakable
  • unsophisticated
  • visible

truthful
adj. accurate, honest
  • believable
  • candid
  • correct
  • exact
  • factual
  • faithful
  • forthright
  • frank
  • guileless
  • ingenuous
  • just
  • kosher
  • legit
  • like it is
  • literal
  • on the level
  • on the up and up
  • open
  • outspoken
  • plainspoken
  • precise
  • real
  • realistic
  • reliable
  • righteous
  • scrupulous
  • sincere
  • square
  • straight
  • straightforward
  • true
  • true-blue
  • trustworthy
  • truth-telling
  • unfeigned
  • unreserved
  • veracious
  • veritable

unaffected
adj. honest, unsophisticated
  • artless
  • candid
  • direct
  • folksy
  • forthright
  • frank
  • genuine
  • guileless
  • homey
  • ingenuous
  • modest
  • naive
  • natural
  • plain
  • simple
  • sincere
  • single
  • spontaneous
  • straightforward
  • true
  • unartificial
  • unassuming
  • unpretentious
  • unschooled
  • unspoilt
  • unstudied
  • up front

vocal
adj. extroverted about opinion
  • articulate
  • blunt
  • clamorous
  • eloquent
  • expressive
  • facile
  • fluent
  • forthright
  • frank
  • free
  • free-spoken
  • glib
  • noisy
  • outspoken
  • plainspoken
  • round
  • smooth-spoken
  • stentorian
  • strident
  • venting
  • vociferous
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Word Origin & History

forthright O.E. forðriht; see forth + right. Related: Forthrightness.

Example Sentences for forthright

Hope you won't think I didn't play soundly, but it's not a forthright game.

A man should not be able to look other than directly and forthright.

All that he did was forthright, manly, single-purposed, and unhesitating.

By the reins the horse he tethered, and went to them forthright.

He was forthright and masterful and inclined to talk to her from a height.

Forthright he drove into the crowd like a reaper into standing grain.

“In that case he's drowned,” said Grattan, who was of a forthright manner of speech.

The question was so unexpected and so forthright that it almost staggered her.

That was her honest, forthright, Winnebago Wisconsin self talking.

He admired this frank, forthright sister who blazed so handsomely into rage.

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