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Definition: PLAIN SPEAKING |
PLAIN SPEAKING1. 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 . |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: PLAIN SPEAKING |
| Specialty definitions using "PLAIN SPEAKING": Downright Dunstable. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| 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 palabras claras (plain english). (various references) rent språk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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