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Another word for frank

Adjective

  1. Manifesting honesty and directness, especially in speech

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Synonym Study

  • Outspoken suggests a lack of restraint or reserve in speech, esp. when reticence might be preferable
  • Open implies a lack of concealment and often connotes an ingenuous quality the open candor of a child
  • Candid implies a basic honesty that makes deceit or evasion impossible, sometimes to the embarrassment of the listener a candid opinion
  • Frank applies to a person, remark, etc. that is free or blunt in expressing the truth or an opinion, unhampered by conventional reticence a frank criticism
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Sentence Examples

  • I will be frank with you.

  • He introduced himself simply as Frank and said he was at my disposal.

  • frank and open-hearted."

  • This young man, of whom I spoke to you last summer, is so noble-minded and full of that real youthfulness which one seldom finds nowadays among our old men of twenty and, particularly, he is so frank and has so much heart.

  • "With you I will be quite frank," said Anna Mikhaylovna.

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