forthright

forthright
adj
1. outspoken, free-spoken, free-speaking, free, unreticent, bold, unreserved, unrestrained, unconstrained, unchecked, unabashed, uninhibited, unshrinking; blunt, bluff, brusque, tactless.
2. frank, candid, direct, straightforward, straight-from-the-shoulder, man-to-man, heart-to-heart; plain, plain-spoken, plain-speaking, downright, outright, explicit, unequivocal, unambiguous, undisguised, Inf. flat-footed.
3. direct, straight, straightforward, straightaway; unswerving, unveering, undeviating, unstraying.
adv
4. direct, directly, right, straight, straightforward, straightforwards, straightly, straight ahead, dead ahead; unswervingly, unveeringly, undeviatingly; in a direct or straight line, in a line for, in line with, Inf. in a bee line, Inf. as the crow flies, Inf. straight as an arrow.
5. outspokenly, freely, boldly, unreservedly, unrestrainedly, unconstrainedly, uninhibitedly, unshrinkingly.
6. candidly, frankly, forthrightly, directly, straightforwardly; explicitly, unequivocally, undisguisedly, plainly, in plain words or English, with no nonsense, all joking aside.
7. immediately, instantly, instanter, in a moment, at once, straightaway, then and there, right away, right off, Inf. right off the bat; in a glance, at a moment's notice.

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