PLAIN SPEAKING

  

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PLAIN SPEAKING

Definition: PLAIN SPEAKING

PLAIN SPEAKING

1. Plainness or bluntness of speech. Syn: Level; flat; smooth; open; artless; unaffected; undisguised; frank; sincere; honest; candid; ingenuous; unembellished; downright; blunt; clear; simple; distinct; manifest; obvious; apparent. See Manifest .

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: PLAIN SPEAKING

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Artlessness

Noun: artlessness; adj; nature, simplicity; innocence; bonhomie, naivete, abandon, candor, sincerity; singleness of purpose, singleness of heart; honesty; plain speaking; epanchement.

Intelligibility

Noun: intelligibility; clearness, explicitness; Adjective: lucidity, comprehensibility, perspicuity; legibility, plain speaking; (manifestation); precision; gr/phonanta synetoisy/gr a word to the wise.

Manifestation

Noun: {ant. } manifestation; plainness; Adjective: plain speaking; expression; showing; Verb: exposition, demonstration; exhibition, production; display, show; showing off; premonstration. exhibit.

Perspicuity

Noun: perspicuity, perspicuousness; (intelligibility); plain speaking; (manifestation); definiteness, definition; exactness; explicitness, lucidness.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: PLAIN SPEAKING

Specialty definitions using "PLAIN SPEAKING": Downright Dunstable. (references)

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Modern Usage: PLAIN SPEAKING

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking (1976)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: PLAIN SPEAKING

Language Translations for "PLAIN SPEAKING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

樸實 (honest; plain speaking, simple; unadorned). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

直言 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ちょく'". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ainplay eakingspay

   

Spanish

  

palabras claras (plain english). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

rent språk. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: PLAIN SPEAKING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-i-i-k-l-n-n-p-p-s"

-3 letters: lagniappes, penalising.

-4 letters: appealing, appeasing, lagnappes, lagniappe, lippening, panelings, plankings.

-5 letters: alanines, aliening, anilines, eanlings, elapsing, enisling, ensiling, genipaps, inklings, kingpins, knapping, lagnappe, leanings, likening, linkages, lippings, paganise, paneling, pinkings, plaining, planking, pleasing, plinking, skeining, skelping, skiplane, skipping, slapping, slinking, slippage, slipping, snaglike, snailing, snapping, sneaking, sneaping, snipping, spanking, speaking, speaning, speiling, spieling.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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