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STRAIGHT-SPOKEN

Definition: STRAIGHT-SPOKEN

STRAIGHT-SPOKEN

Adjective

1. Speaking with directness; plain-spoken.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Straight-spoken \Straight"-spo`ken\, adjective. Speaking with directness; plain-spoken. [Colloquial United States]. (Websters 1913)


Modern Translation: STRAIGHT-SPOKEN

Language Translations for "STRAIGHT-SPOKEN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

平直讲话. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

똑"르 말하". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aight-spokenstray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "STRAIGHT-SPOKEN"

Words rhyming with "STRAIGHT-SPOKEN" (pronounced 'Straight"-spo`ken'): foul-spoken, free-spoken, heartbroken, Plain-spoken, Pock-broken, Pretty-spoken, Short-spoken, smooth-spoken, soft-spoken, Well-spoken, Wind-broken. (additional references)

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Anagrams: STRAIGHT-SPOKEN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-i-k-n-o-p-r-s-s-t-t"

-2 letters: antistrophes.

-3 letters: antistrophe, hotpressing, senatorship, stephanotis, straightens, throatiness.

-4 letters: anorthites, gestations, nightspots, northeasts, pantheists, patronises, poststrike, presoaking, pretasting, progestins, protesting, protistans, respotting, senhoritas, shattering, shoestring, shrinkages, spaghettis, spattering, stationers, straighten, streakings, therapists, tightropes.

-5 letters: agonistes, anorthite, antipress, aphorises, aphorists, aspersing, aspersion, asserting, assertion, assorting, astringes, atrophies, atropines, estragons, ganisters, garnishes, gateposts, gestation, ghostiest, gnathites.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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