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free-spoken

[ free-spoh-kuh n ]

/ ˈfriˈspoʊ kən /

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adjective

given to speaking freely or without reserve; frank; outspoken.

Origin of free-spoken

First recorded in 1615–25

OTHER WORDS FROM free-spoken

free-spo·ken·ly, adverb free-spo·ken·ness, noun

Words nearby free-spoken

free-running, free-select, free-soil, free-soiler, free-spending, free-spoken, free-swimmer, free-swimming, free-swinging, free-tailed bat, free-to-air

Example sentences from the Web for free-spoken

You see I am a free-spoken Counsellor; may I not be a true prophet!

Private letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2) |Edward Gibbon
Comfortable quarters; Apollo a cleverish, free-spoken fellow.

Life of John Coleridge Patteson |Charlotte M. Yonge
He had yielded to the free-spoken representations of Walter de Manny and to the soft entreaties of his royal wife.

A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times |Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
They stood forth as examples of endurance, abnegation — insensibility to shame and fear — free-spoken censure of others.

Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume I (of 4) |George Grote

It was his duty, they urged, to have an immediate interview with this free-spoken Anna and instruct her in the proprieties.

Seventeen |Booth Tarkington

British Dictionary definitions for free-spoken

free-spoken

adjective

speaking frankly or without restraint

Derived forms of free-spoken

free-spokenly, adverb free-spokenness, noun