What is another word for Plain-spoken?
Pronunciation:
[ plˈe͡ɪnspˈə͡ʊkən], [ plˈeɪnspˈəʊkən], [ p_l_ˈeɪ_n_s_p_ˈəʊ_k_ə_n]
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Similar words for Plain-spoken:
- artless (adjective)
- bluff (adjective)
- blunt (adjective)
- frank (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- outspoken (adjective)
- plainspoken (adjective)
- straight-out (adjective)
- straight-shooting (adjective)
- succinct (adjective)
- transparent (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Plain-spoken:
adj.
• artless (adjective)- open,
- undeceiving,
- natural,
- callow,
- naive,
- unsophisticated,
- overt,
- unaffected,
- unrestrained,
- downright,
- outgoing,
- trusting,
- Unbeguiling,
- uncalculating,
- artless,
- Unartful,
- undeceptive,
- sincere,
- broad,
- genuine,
- undeceitful,
- direct,
- honest,
- un-artificial,
- straightforward.
- no-nonsense,
- barefaced,
- crusty,
- brief,
- Short-spoken,
- unceremonious,
- rough,
- hearty,
- Snippety,
- terse,
- tart,
- rude,
- blustering,
- laconic,
- tactless,
- snippy,
- brusque.
- discourteous,
- abrupt,
- matter of fact,
- snappy,
- matter-of-fact,
- explicit,
- impolite,
- uncivil,
- trenchant,
- unpolished.
- more flat out,
- un disguised,
- more bare faced,
- un-reserved,
- most flatout,
- most heart to heart,
- call spade spade,
- like is,
- lay on line,
- more heart-to-heart,
- out-right,
- saying what thinks,
- most bare faced,
- lay it the line,
- flatout,
- un concealed,
- most flat out,
- un-inhibited,
- out righter,
- most flat-out,
- most undisguised,
- un-disguised,
- from hip,
- un restricted,
- out-righter,
- more undisguised,
- more heart to heart,
- heart to heart,
- lay line,
- bare faced,
- lay it line,
- call spade a spade,
- un-concealed,
- most heart-to-heart,
- call a spade spade,
- un inhibited,
- most bare-faced,
- out right,
- lay it on line,
- out rightest,
- un-restricted,
- lay the line,
- more bare-faced,
- more flat-out,
- more flatout.
- frank,
- ingenuous,
- calling spade a spade,
- breviloquent,
- bare-faced,
- heartiest,
- laying it on the line,
- outspoken,
- short,
- heart-to-heart,
- undisguised,
- transparent,
- blunt,
- from the hip,
- unreticent,
- bearish,
- gruff,
- lay it on the line,
- curt,
- straight-from-the-shoulder,
- saying what one thinks,
- straight-out,
- no nonsense,
- straight-shooting,
- like it is,
- call a spade a spade,
- bluff,
- straight from the shoulder,
- straight shooting,
- shortest,
- lay on the line,
- un-reticent,
- plain,
- pointblank.
- man-to-man,
- flat-out,
- apparent,
- aboveboard,
- upright,
- easy,
- Familiar,
- Plain-spoken,
- scrupulous,
- real,
- unconcealed,
- up front,
- brazen.
n.
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- irreproachable,
- fine,
- upstanding,
- good,
- principled,
- truthful,
- decent.
Other synonyms:
• Other relevant words:- hardheaded,
- bawd,
- all-inclusive,
- stereotypical,
- thoroughgoing,
- loquacious,
- bland,
- dampen,
- sluttish,
- pugnacious,
- undisputable,
- chip,
- encompassing,
- au naturel,
- angle,
- petroleum,
- unclutter,
- gossamer,
- insolent,
- facile,
- countryfied,
- gauze-like,
- train,
- fluent,
- inept,
- bluff out,
- emphasized,
- teetotal,
- lucid,
- monotonic,
- simple-minded,
- free people,
- round-eyed,
- nipping,
- amiable,
- all over,
- communicatory,
- innate,
- marginal,
- threadbare,
- dangerous,
- abbreviated,
- bumpy,
- uninstructed,
- boldface,
- second power,
- expansive,
- vertical,
- tangy,
- damp,
- leaden,
- definitive,
- tacky,
- square up,
- groovy,
- average,
- crystalize,
- rattling,
- off-color,
- flashy,
- gain,
- unblinking,
- advancing,
- letters patent,
- big,
- ill-humored,
- unstudied,
- pall,
- graspable,
- loose,
- ripe,
- speech production,
- tedious,
- hard,
- easily,
- receptive,
- curmudgeonly,
- quetch,
- large-minded,
- merry,
- too-generous,
- supernumerary,
- slowly,
- unpatterned,
- everlasting,
- dashing,
- vulgar,
- tot up,
- postmark,
- thorough,
- honorable,
- childlike,
- give,
- wienerwurst,
- matt,
- shortsighted,
- muted,
- exculpated,
- damn,
- denotative,
- earn,
- vicious,
- unconditional,
- myopic,
- frantic,
- lady of pleasure,
- solve,
- dog,
- rightfield,
- mental,
- leisurely,
- working girl,
- nubby,
- redundant,
- reachable,
- give up,
- make out,
- level,
- painstaking,
- clamant,
- unbent,
- particular,
- sluggish,
- bountiful,
- plebeian,
- sombre,
- superficial,
- uncultured,
- thoroughly,
- unflinching,
- smashing,
- wide-eyed,
- relieve,
- unfinished,
- straightaway,
- tone down,
- mastermind,
- secure,
- innocuous,
- round out,
- safe,
- adept,
- bald-pated,
- mighty,
- correct,
- unacquainted,
- uncaring,
- ironical,
- untactful,
- take,
- surplus,
- immediately,
- public speaking,
- flatcar,
- come down,
- substantial,
- target,
- expert,
- acquit,
- beneficial,
- full-strength,
- hard-nosed,
- virtuous,
- orchestrate,
- all-embracing,
- vindicated,
- rotund,
- promiscuous,
- natty,
- well-situated,
- sedate,
- unspecific,
- unsubdivided,
- boring,
- manifestly,
- unforesightful,
- tote up,
- enlighten,
- fossil oil,
- nappy,
- unmixed,
- uncoiled,
- point,
- raw,
- amount,
- effortless,
- cool,
- garrulous,
- seeable,
- sodding,
- knit,
- dry out,
- earthbound,
- actual,
- soundly,
- biological,
- saturated,
- fricative,
- ironic,
- resign,
- keen,
- head,
- forrad,
- fall,
- lineal,
- ho-hum,
- question of fact,
- outdoors,
- brighten,
- in effect,
- sharp,
- delicately,
- flat tire,
- charitable,
- destitute,
- guide,
- flop,
- phrase,
- assail,
- life-threatening,
- pedestrian,
- irrefutable,
- justly,
- ordinary bicycle,
- forwards,
- inexperienced person,
- orderly,
- pass,
- unprocessed,
- talk,
- primitive,
- tearing,
- estimable,
- dispatch,
- snappish,
- rocky,
- cobwebby,
- blustery,
- rung,
- observable,
- risk,
- sourish,
- undetermined,
- categoric,
- yokelish,
- hoarse,
- finely,
- veridical,
- violent,
- precipitant,
- gaudy,
- vapid,
- terrible,
- amercement,
- whole,
- garish,
- hot dog,
- enunciate,
- great,
- surface,
- approaching,
- field,
- bluntly,
- comfortable,
- beastly,
- devoid,
- take in,
- publicize,
- gabby,
- well-worn,
- green,
- openhanded,
- right field,
- across-the-board,
- kind,
- enounce,
- blanket,
- apprehensible,
- unawares,
- unresolved,
- platitude,
- hunky-dory,
- undefendable,
- untouched,
- speechmaking,
- daily round,
- agrestic,
- palpable,
- hackneyed,
- unsloped,
- okay,
- reasonable,
- all-encompassing,
- like a shot,
- aggregate,
- cursory,
- jolting,
- prostitute,
- vocalise,
- diaphanous,
- countrified,
- thin,
- unsheathed,
- round down,
- rank,
- make,
- sharp-worded,
- existent,
- publicise,
- honestly,
- flesh out,
- sum,
- fell,
- net,
- spruce,
- frontward,
- bounderish,
- straighten out,
- trim,
- delirious,
- unostentatious,
- undecided,
- cozy,
- open air,
- send,
- see-through,
- old-hat,
- unplayful,
- alright,
- well-to-do,
- wrinkle,
- add together,
- properly,
- skimpy,
- heterosexual person,
- tend,
- readable,
- forthrightly,
- brassy,
- release,
- dandy,
- monotone,
- approximative,
- bald-headed,
- chatty,
- well-off,
- skilful,
- ruckle,
- jolty,
- bout,
- round of drinks,
- unfledged,
- polish,
- insensible,
- coming,
- gravelly,
- tired,
- unit of ammunition,
- illuminate,
- bestial,
- staring,
- incontestable,
- compressed,
- uninitiate,
- gimcrack,
- smooth-spoken,
- organize,
- peachy,
- exclamatory,
- full,
- nude,
- earthy,
- munificent,
- wry,
- cocotte,
- evidence,
- extra,
- vapourous,
- attack,
- say,
- give voice,
- impeccant,
- sack,
- dense,
- relinquish,
- orotund,
- brusquely,
- tally,
- lusty,
- brisk,
- unmoved,
- lavish,
- accessible,
- abstainer,
- boisterous,
- unglamourous,
- rectify,
- over,
- rock oil,
- virtual,
- univocal,
- stereotyped,
- brute,
- sound off,
- decently,
- labialise,
- inclination,
- ill-humoured,
- gauzy,
- unbowed,
- slant,
- realise,
- organise,
- forrader,
- skillful,
- onwards,
- emphasised,
- liberate,
- lead,
- excited,
- costless,
- crystallise,
- fitting,
- not bad,
- toast,
- pellucid,
- vestal,
- discharge,
- monotonous,
- hotdog,
- true,
- subject,
- straight off,
- naif,
- wiener,
- plain stitch,
- blusterous,
- grave,
- shortstop,
- unornamented,
- in force,
- near,
- brutish,
- audacious,
- rhythm,
- clearly,
- one shot,
- deaden,
- four flush,
- old,
- redress,
- unadulterated,
- knockout,
- vaporous,
- pronounce,
- crystalise,
- all-firedly,
- square toes,
- unrelenting,
- timeworn,
- silver,
- unceremonial,
- ostensible,
- gross,
- run,
- patently,
- mulct,
- onward,
- unintimidated,
- short-circuit,
- be given,
- disengage,
- ok,
- commodity,
- accomplished,
- out-of-doors,
- champaign,
- unthinking,
- demonstrate,
- brazen-faced,
- straight person,
- rightfulness,
- short-change,
- steer,
- one,
- zippy,
- simpleton,
- fill in,
- altogether,
- homelike,
- unproblematic,
- detached,
- two-dimensional,
- bring in,
- stripped,
- dear,
- spirant,
- consecutive,
- discernible,
- squarely,
- opened,
- cycle,
- veracious,
- ascetical,
- easygoing,
- air,
- unfeigned,
- matted,
- round off,
- inflexible,
- trigger-happy,
- frontwards,
- luculent,
- gay,
- unloose,
- dewy-eyed,
- off-colour,
- bang-up,
- sober up,
- dumb,
- curtly,
- clear up,
- mightily,
- formulate,
- joint,
- unlimited,
- slick,
- snipe,
- raucous,
- oral presentation,
- ahead,
- sensitive,
- lash out,
- slap-up,
- poor,
- humdrum,
- stern,
- unenlightened,
- high-spirited,
- trustful,
- beat,
- harlot,
- dim-witted,
- well-heeled,
- vocal music,
- obviously,
- tweedy,
- tardily,
- instant,
- cheeky,
- tawdry,
- continuant,
- ill-mannered,
- patent of invention,
- rough out,
- labialize,
- softened,
- forgetful,
- calculate,
- bold face,
- exposed,
- crystal clear,
- public square,
- certify,
- unfold,
- barren,
- frosty,
- unmingled,
- open up,
- nonchalant,
- bigmouthed,
- fierce,
- nonsensitive,
- earnest,
- articulated,
- uncultivated,
- flash,
- one-on-one,
- ill-bred,
- slubbed,
- light,
- right on,
- right wing,
- number,
- born,
- kick,
- roughly,
- circle,
- totality,
- conscientious,
- whore,
- trade good,
- authorize,
- in a flash,
- perceivable,
- totally,
- elucidate,
- complain,
- kinky,
- echt,
- tatty,
- homy,
- clean-handed,
- shed light on,
- add,
- lame,
- word,
- mat,
- summate,
- vocalize,
- spread out,
- contiguous,
- raffish,
- gratis,
- extroverted,
- unstinted,
- unspoiled,
- potato chip,
- undefended,
- fill out,
- sibilant,
- prohibitionist,
- exquisitely,
- nubbly,
- oil,
- right hand,
- dispense with,
- perfunctory,
- reliable,
- bad-mannered,
- uncouth,
- ungoverned,
- kvetch,
- fancy woman,
- arrant,
- evidently,
- erect,
- scratchy,
- disembarrass,
- capable,
- crispen,
- extensive,
- solemn,
- juiceless,
- serious,
- roughshod,
- barbarous,
- strip,
- now,
- denuded,
- top,
- insouciant,
- scrunch,
- usual,
- unspoilt,
- satisfying,
- sympathetic,
- blabby,
- right-down,
- unpretending,
- flatbed,
- handsome,
- aim,
- gratuitous,
- crystallize,
- polish up,
- roundly,
- verbatim,
- somber,
- assoil,
- right-hand,
- flavorless,
- frizzy,
- undecorated,
- sack up,
- stereotypic,
- denudate,
- superfluous,
- realize,
- mere,
- searching,
- exonerate,
- jejune,
- inadequate,
- approximate,
- concluded,
- sound out,
- suddenly,
- hick,
- dislodge,
- supererogatory,
- raspy,
- effective,
- abruptly,
- forth,
- rough-cut,
- everyday,
- absolve,
- nifty,
- percipient,
- afford,
- well disposed,
- grievous,
- terminated,
- hasty,
- complimentary,
- crystalline,
- unworldly,
- manoeuvre,
- round of golf,
- list,
- guiltless,
- lemony,
- bluffly,
- satisfactory,
- apparently,
- insipid,
- right away,
- solid,
- sturdy,
- unexclusive,
- cracker-barrel,
- alert,
- 2-dimensional,
- apartment,
- exuberant,
- upright piano,
- perfect,
- spiffy,
- instantly,
- heterosexual,
- liberal,
- defenseless,
- indecorous,
- utter,
- bully,
- daily,
- foursquare,
- shopworn,
- instantaneously,
- powerful,
- exonerated,
- engineer,
- thudding,
- aright,
- absolved,
- double-dyed,
- mutual,
- sort out,
- encrusted,
- knit stitch,
- grating,
- scanty,
- overgenerous,
- all right,
- four-flusher,
- tilt,
- woman of the street,
- practiced,
- jaunty,
- good-hearted,
- sound,
- unlittered,
- intimate,
- manoeuver,
- commons,
- limpid,
- material,
- really,
- cancel,
- mad,
- assault,
- take aim,
- precipitous,
- nice,
- crude oil,
- talky,
- kindly,
- address,
- attest,
- tot,
- virgin,
- bounteous,
- clean,
- giving,
- unloosen,
- little,
- decipherable,
- wearisome,
- well-fixed,
- song,
- tip,
- plane,
- silver-tongued,
- soft,
- banality,
- underbred,
- matte,
- savorless,
- uncut,
- unblock,
- blameless,
- turn,
- forrard,
- understated,
- spanking,
- filmy,
- add up,
- virginal,
- respectable,
- overhasty,
- literal,
- wanton,
- unbridled,
- pragmatic,
- seeming,
- channelize,
- muffle,
- dead,
- fifth wheel,
- obtuse,
- liqueur,
- completely,
- crease,
- very,
- nail,
- jumpy,
- bumpkinly,
- fledgling,
- unfreeze,
- spare part,
- sheer,
- brush up,
- well-disposed,
- banal,
- sure,
- unstained,
- chance,
- prosperous,
- desolate,
- authorise,
- well,
- uninspired,
- cruel,
- compensate,
- very well,
- frankfurter,
- exempt,
- muffled,
- crispy,
- crying,
- lifelike,
- benumb,
- quick,
- lively,
- spacious,
- placeable,
- drab,
- incline,
- wholly,
- well-defined,
- inculpable,
- proper,
- like blue murder,
- crusted,
- mute,
- excess,
- forte,
- upcoming,
- free-and-easy,
- cheap,
- unclouded,
- maneuver,
- opinionative,
- channelise,
- unmortgaged,
- decided,
- lemonlike,
- proficient,
- sum up,
- at once,
- tiresome,
- gauche,
- husky,
- unfastened,
- entire,
- send on,
- bodacious,
- troll,
- unrefined,
- legal brief,
- positive,
- benevolent,
- naturalistic,
- occasional,
- red-blooded,
- exculpate,
- whipping,
- sunny,
- acceptable,
- absolute,
- graceless,
- forward-moving,
- sterile,
- correctly,
- flavourless,
- circular,
- forthwith,
- savourless,
- cracking,
- all the way,
- unglamorous,
- wide,
- goodness,
- expressed,
- loudly,
- ticket,
- nervy,
- instinctive,
- vernacular,
- tangible,
- disconnected,
- cyprian,
- deadening,
- repetitive,
- lowbred,
- prompt,
- unretentive,
- unwashed,
- bleak,
- wicked,
- fair,
- weenie,
- pragmatical,
- unsmooth,
- assailable,
- rough in,
- all,
- abrasive,
- shrill,
- plainly,
- passing,
- bloody,
- pull in,
- rasping,
- corking,
- dapper,
- entirely,
- sinless,
- bighearted,
- around,
- uninitiated,
- nippy,
- dim,
- bromide,
- discrete,
- tolerant,
- trashy,
- conduct,
- finish,
- put on the line,
- fore,
- stave,
- panoptic,
- clean-cut,
- consummate,
- blazing,
- slow,
- come,
- meretricious,
- hard-hitting,
- unembarrassed,
- swell,
- crustlike,
- demonstrable,
- unmannered,
- self-opinionated,
- ended,
- unmediated,
- unimpeachable,
- park,
- just,
- feather,
- gentle,
- light up,
- leaning,
- denude,
- aloud,
- blabbermouthed,
- sporting lady,
- scrunch up,
- stock,
- prostrate,
- homey,
- rakish,
- dependable,
- rid,
- frizzly,
- save,
- part with,
- exigent,
- cleared,
- real number,
- spread,
- uncurbed,
- cliche,
- trite,
- scant,
- unconsidered,
- savage,
- numb,
- shortly,
- beyond doubt,
- pear-shaped,
- crinkle,
- salutary,
- place,
- uninventive,
- conspicuous,
- elementary,
- full-blooded.
- sober,
- unrestricted,
- crude,
- Free-tongued,
- indelicate,
- unchecked,
- specific,
- homespun,
- uncontrived,
- friendly,
- pure,
- outright,
- free-spoken,
- above-board,
- rough-spoken,
- unshrinking,
- unguarded,
- Prosing,
- unimaginative,
- ascetic,
- upfront,
- prosy,
- well-spoken,
- lean,
- spartan,
- unpremeditated,
- out-and-out,
- rustic,
- spare,
- openhearted,
- dry,
- free,
- unabashed,
- eloquent,
- affable,
- round,
- articulate,
- soft-spoken,
- homely,
- unconstrained,
- good-natured,
- austere,
- forthright,
- undiplomatic,
- brash,
- plain-speaking,
- severe,
- freehand,
- neat,
- common,
- unambiguous,
- categorical,
- uninhibited,
- freehanded,
- uncalculated,
- flat,
- unsubtle,
- unequivocal,
- inconsiderate,
- approachable,
- unvarnished,
- speaking,
- talking,
- bare,
- coarse,
- straight,
- guileless,
- plainspoken,
- talkative,
- dull,
- uncompromising,
- uncomplicated,
- commonplace,
- ungracious,
- Open-hearted,
- thoughtless,
- bold.
How to use "Plain-spoken" in context?
"Plain-spoken" is an understatement. This book is brutally honest, and as such, it can be confronting. However, the honesty is necessary if it is to provide any real help to people struggling with mental health issues. Issues like anxiety, body image, and depression are tough to confront, but the author's frank assessment of them is key in helping others.
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