Word Meanings - STRAIGHT-SPOKEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Speaking with directness; plain-spoken. Lowell.

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• PLAINTIVE
  1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
• PLAINTIFF
  One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant. (more info) French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See
• PLAINT
  A private memorial tendered to a court, in which a person sets forth his cause of action; the exhibiting of an action in writing. Blackstone. (more info) planctum , to beat, beat the breast, lament. Cf. 1. Audible expression of sorrow;
• PLAINLY
  In a plain manner; clearly.
• SPEAKERSHIP
  The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
• PLAIN-SPOKEN
  Speaking with plain, unreserved sincerity; also, spoken sincerely; as, plain-spoken words. Dryden.
• PLAINTLESS
  Without complaint; unrepining. "Plaintless patience." Savage.
• PLAIN-HEARTED
  Frank; sincere; artless. Milton. -- Plain"-heart`ed*ness, n.
• SPEAKER
  1. One who speaks. Specifically: One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides
• PLAINSMAN
  One who lives in the plains.
• PLAIN-DEALING
  Practicing plain dealing; artless. See Plain dealing, under Dealing. Shak.
• PLAIN
  To lament; to bewail; to complain. Milton. We with piteous heart unto you pleyne. Chaucer.
• PLAINTFUL
  Containing a plaint; complaining; expressing sorrow with an audible voice. "My plaintful tongue." Sir P. Sidney.
• SPOKEN
  1. Uttered in speech; delivered by word of mouth; oral; as, a spoken narrative; the spoken word. 2. Characterized by a certain manner or style in speaking; -- often in composition; as, a pleasant-spoken man. Methinks you 're better spoken. Shak.
• PLAINNESS
  The quality or state of being plain.
• PLAINANT
  One who makes complaint; the plaintiff.
• PLAINING
  Complaint. Shak.
• DIRECTNESS
  The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.
• PLAIN-LAID
  Consisting of strands twisted together in the ordinary way; as, a plain-laid rope. See Illust. of Cordage.
• SPEAKING
  1. Uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a speaking animal; a speaking tube. 2. Seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a speaking likeness. A speaking acquaintance, a slight acquaintance with a person, or one which
• BESPEAKER
  One who bespeaks.
• FREE-SPOKEN
  Accustomed to speak without reserve. Bacon. -- Free"-spo`ken-ness, n.
• OUTSPEAK
  1. To exceed in speaking. 2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. 3. To express more than. Shak.
• CHAMPLAIN PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain. Note: The earlier deposits of this period are diluvial in character, as if formed in connection with floods attending
• UNBESPEAK
  To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel. Pepys.
• EXPLAIN
  out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear
• FAIR-SPOKEN
  Using fair speech, or uttered with fairness; bland; civil; courteous; plausible. "A marvelous fair-spoken man." Hooker.
• FORSPEAK
  1. To forbid; to prohibit. Shak. 2. To bewitch. Drayton.
• PRETTY-SPOKEN
  Spoken or speaking prettily.
• SMOOTH-SPOKEN
  Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.
• FORESPEAKING
  A prediction; also, a preface. Camden. Huloet.