plainspoken
plaintively
plainly
man-to-man
clear
flat
spadish
express
point blank
luculently
flatling
plat
talk up
obviously
mince
broad
manifestly
evidently
patently
apparently
plain
sincere
straight
tellingly
in a nutshell
straight talk
uncryptically
prosaically
up and down
mouth
evendown
articulate
in focus
plaintiveness
go without saying
positive
spokewise
in gross
compresently
blandiloquent
unstatedly
mouth the words
due
downright
meretriciously
descriptively
subjectlessly
directly
specific
explicit
well-spoken
professed
somehow
at first blush
expressed
nonvague
unvague
sotto voce
drone
unuttered
when it's at home
ascriptively
decidedly
uncryptic
homelily
vaunt
insubstantive
substantially
indescriptive
nonrhetorical
orate
straight from the shoulder
unexpressedly
no joke
professedly
undescriptive
formatively
pop off
terse
unmistakenly
expressis verbis
in front of one's nose
simply
splutter
unstated
piteously
in part
ex professo
talk a mile a minute
cheek
bull
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broad
sincere
up and down
evendown
positive
blandiloquent
downright
specific
explicit
well-spoken
professed
expressed
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unvague
unuttered
uncryptic
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nonrhetorical
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point blank
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evidently
patently
apparently
plain
straight
tellingly
in a nutshell
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unstatedly
due
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somehow
sotto voce
when it's at home
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homelily
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simply
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orate
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cheek
bull
adv
- In a clear manner; plainly.
- Not near something or touching it.
- All the way; entirely.
- Free (or separate) from others.
verb
- To remove obstructions, impediments or other unwanted items from.
- To style (an element within a document) so that it is not permitted to float at a given position.
- To remove from suspicion, especially of having committed a crime.
- To pass without interference; to miss.
- To finish or complete (a stage, challenge, or game).
- To leave abruptly; to clear off or clear out.
- To disengage oneself from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
- To exceed a stated mark.
- To obtain approval or authorisation in respect of.
- To hit, kick, head, punch etc. (a ball, puck) away in order to defend one's goal.
- To remove (items or material) so as to leave something unobstructed or open.
- To obtain a clearance.
- To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from (a matter); to clarify or resolve; to clear up.
- To earn a profit of; to net.
- To obtain permission to use (a sample of copyrighted audio) in another track.
- To become free from obstruction or obscurement; to become transparent.
- To approve or authorise for a particular purpose or action; to give clearance to.
- To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.
- Of a check or financial transaction, to go through as payment; to be processed so that the money is transferred.
adj
- Free of obstacles.
- Good, the best.
- Free of ambiguity or doubt; easily understood.
- Without clouds.
- Without defects or blemishes, such as freckles or knots.
- Of the sky, such that less than one eighth of its area is obscured by clouds.
- Distinct, sharp, well-marked.
- Transparent in colour.
- Possessing little or no perceptible stimulus.
- Unmixed; entirely pure.
- Without diminution; in full; net.
- Showing a green aspect, allowing a train to proceed past it.
- Better than, superior to.
- Easily or distinctly heard; audible.
- Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating.
- Free from the influence of engrams; see Clear (Scientology).
- Without a thickening ingredient.
- Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
- Free of guilt, or suspicion.
- Bright; luminous; not dark or obscured.
noun
adv
- Directly; flatly.
- Used to emphasize the smallness of the measurement.
- Completely.
- Without allowance for accrued interest.
- Bluntly.
- In the mile race, Smith's time was 3:58.56, and Brown's was four minutes flat.
- Exactly, precisely.
- So as to be flat.
verb
- To make a flat call; to call without raising.
- To fall from the pitch.
- To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
- To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
- To dash or throw
- To dash, rush
adj
- Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
- Unable to emit power; dead.
- Smooth; having no protrusions, indentations or other surface irregularities, or relatively so.
- Lacking acidity without being sweet.
- Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "to".
- Absolute; downright; peremptory.
- Without variation in tone or hue (uniform), and dull (not glossy).
- Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
- Of fees, fares etc., fixed; unvarying.
- Lowered by one semitone.
- Without spin; spinless.
- Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.
- At a consistently depressed level; consistently lacklustre.
- Flattening at the ends.
- With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
- Exact.
- In a horizontal line or plane; not sloping.
- Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
- Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
- Without variations in pitch.
- Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
- Having no variations in height.
- Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
noun
- A flat tyre/flat tire.
- A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin, often produced in standard modules, that is used to build wall surfaces on stage. Flats can be painted and outfitted with doors and/or windows to depict a building or other part of a scene. It's a hard-surfaced alternative to a backcloth orbackdrop.
- An area of level ground (sometimes covered with water).
- A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
- The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.
- A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
- A flat (i.e. plane) mirror
- The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
- A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
- A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.
- A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
- A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
- An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room.
- Level ground in general.
- A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
- A type of ladies' shoe with a very low heel.
- Level horse-racing ground, as contrasted with courses incorporating jumps, or the racing done on such ground.
- A wide, shallow container or pallet.
- A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
- A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
- A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
- A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolour painting.
- A flat sheet for use on a bed.
- the area in the centre of a racecourse.
- A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
adj
- Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.
- Truly depicted; exactly resembling.
- Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
- Providing a more limited but presumably faster service than a full or complete dealer of the same kind or type.
adv
verb
- To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
- To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
- To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
- To translate messenger RNA into protein.
noun
- An express office.
- That which is sent by an express messenger or message.
- A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.
- A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
- An express rifle.
- A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.
adv
noun
- A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.).
- A plot of land; a lot.
- Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made.
- A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.
verb
adj
verb
- To say or utter vaguely (not directly or frankly).
- To lessen; to diminish; to diminish in speaking; to speak of lightly or slightingly; to minimise.
- To effect mincingly.
- To cut into very small pieces; to chop finely.
- To make less; to make small.
- To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
- To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
- To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.
noun
adj
- Plain; evident.
- General rather than specific.
- Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
- Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
- Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.
- Unsubtle; obvious.
- Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
- Strongly regional.
- Wide in extent or scope.
- Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.
noun
adv
- Of speech or information, without prevarication or holding back; directly; straightforwardly; plainly.
- Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
- Continuously; without interruption or pause.
- Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
noun
- A chiropractor who relies solely on spinal adjustment, with no other treatments.
- Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
- Five cards in sequence.
- A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana.
- A heterosexual.
- A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
verb
adj
- Direct, undeviating.
- Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets.
- Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party.
- Occurring between people of opposite sex (sometimes, but not always, specifically between heterosexual people).
- Strait; narrow.
- Conventional; mainstream; socially acceptable.
- Thorough; utter; unqualified.
- Of spirits: undiluted, unmixed; neat.
- Concerning the property allowing the parallel transport of vectors along a course that keeps tangent vectors remain as such throughout that course (a course which is straight, a straight curve, is a geodesic).
- Not plus size; thin.
- In proper order; as it should be.
- Heterosexual.
- Serious rather than comedic.
- Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a single party and no others.
- Related to conventional sexual intercourse.
- Free from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding.
- Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
- Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique.
- In a row, in unbroken sequence; consecutive.
- Not using alcohol, drugs, etc.
- Describing the sets in a match of which the winner did not lose a single set.
- Direct in communication; unevasive, straightforward.
verb
- To speak; to utter.
- To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
- To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
- To form a mouth or opening in.
- To carry in the mouth.
- To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
- The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them.
- To form with the mouth.
- To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling.
- To examine the teeth of.
- To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
- To exit at a mouth (such as a river mouth)
noun
verb
- To speak clearly; to enunciate.
- To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.
- To make clear or effective.
- To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.
- to form a joint or connect by joints
- to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.
adj
- Speaking in a clear and effective manner.
- Distinctly marked off.
- Clear; effective.
- Consisting of segments united by joints.
noun
prep_phrase
adj
- Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
- Not negative or neutral.
- Stated definitively and without qualification.
- Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.
- Optimistic.
- Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought', 'feeling' or 'emotion').
- Overconfident, dogmatic.
- Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
- Of number, greater than zero.
- Having more protons than electrons.
- HIV positive.
- Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
- Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
- Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
- Formally laid down.
- Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations.
- Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
- electropositive
- Fully assured in opinion.
- Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
- Describing a verb that is not negated, especially in languages which have distinct positive and negative verb forms, e.g., Finnish.
- basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
noun
- A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
- A positive result of a test.
- An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
- A favourable point or characteristic.
- A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative.
- A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
- Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
- The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
adv
- Plainly, without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.
- Soon; next; in due time; as soon as it becomes convenient.
- Straightforwardly; honestly.
- In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.
- In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary but by direct means.
- Exactly; just; at the shortest possible distance.
conj
adj
noun
- a fact about some part (as opposed to general)
- a medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific disease
adj
- (sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique
- relating to or distinguishing or constituting a taxonomic species
- being or affecting a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition; used also of stains or dyes used in making microscope slides
adj
adj
verb
- To speak in a monotone way.
- To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
- To kill with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft.
noun
- One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
- One who performs menial or tedious work.
- A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.
- A remotely controlled aircraft, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
- A Toyota HiAce or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members.
- A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen.
- A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
- A humming or deep murmuring sound.
- A low-pitched hum or buzz.
adj
adj
phrase
adj
verb
- To speak frankly.
- To release flatulence, generally in short rapid succession.
- To perform extremely well (in a video game or other activity).
- To die suddenly.
- To thrust away, or put off promptly.
- To kill someone.
- To fire or launch (a shot, projectile, or missile), especially singly or in small bursts.
- To leave and return in a short time.
- To turn off.
prep_phrase
verb
- To speak hurriedly, and confusedly or unclearly.
- To forcefully emit (something), especially in small drops or particles; to sputter.
- To soil or sprinkle (someone or something) with a substance, often a liquid; to bespatter, to spatter.
- To make a sound or sounds of something forcefully emitting a substance in small drops or particles.
- To direct angry words, criticism, insults, etc., at (someone or something).
- Followed by out: to go out (as a flame) or stop functioning (as an engine or machine) with a spluttering action or sound (senses 2.1 or 2.3).
- Of a thing: to forcefully emit something, especially in small drops or particles.
- Of a substance: to be emitted forcefully in small drops or particles.
- To spray droplets of saliva from the mouth while eating or speaking.
- To perform in an inconsistent manner to a substandard level.
- Sometimes followed by out: to speak (words) hurriedly, and confusedly or unclearly.
noun
prep_phrase
verb
- speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths
- push or force
- try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying
- advance in price
noun
- uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle
- a large and strong and heavyset man
- Obscene word for unacceptable behavior
- a serious and ludicrous blunder
- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later
- the center of a target
- a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)
- mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle
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