Synonyms for plainspoken
- blunt
- candid
- forthright
- guileless
- honest
- matter-of-fact
- naive
- outspoken
- straightforward
- aboveboard
- apparent
- artless
- bare-faced
- bold
- brazen
- call a spade a spade
- direct
- downright
- easy
- familiar
- flat-out
- free
- from the hip
- heart-to-heart
- ingenuous
- lay it on the line
- like it is
- man-to-man
- natural
- open
- outright
- plain
- plain-spoken
- real
- saying what one thinks
- scrupulous
- sincere
- straight
- straight-out
- transparent
- truthful
- unconcealed
- undisguised
- uninhibited
- unreserved
- unrestricted
- up front
- upright
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He had been a lover of the good, old, plainspoken stamp, about whom there had been no mistake.
Abdallah made a sign to the ferret-faced youth, and the latter fell back from the plainspoken major.
This undoubtedly was a bitter attack, and the plainspoken words used must have wounded Lowe intensely.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR PLAINSPOKEN
direct
adjectivehonestdown to earth
adjectivepracticalforthright
adjectivestraightforward, honestmore vocal
adjectiveextroverted about opinionRoget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
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