About The Word Fluent
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Fluent
Fluent Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Fluent?
[adj] expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech"
[adj] smooth and unconstrained in movement; "a long, smooth stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid grace of a ballerina"; "liquid prose" [adj] easy and graceful in shape; "a yacht with long, fluent curves" Synonyms | Synonyms for Fluent: articulate | eloquent | facile | flowing | fluid | graceful | liquid | silver | silver-tongued | smooth | smooth-spoken Related Terms | Find terms related to Fluent: affluent | all jaw | apt | articulate | ascending | axial | back | back-flowing | backward | balanced | candid | chatty | communicative | concinnate | concinnous | confluent | conversational | coursing | cursive | decurrent | defluent | descending | diffluent | down-trending | downward | drifting | easy | effortless | effusive | elegant | eloquent | euphonic | euphonical | euphonious | expansive | expressive | facile | felicitous | flip | flowing | fluid | fluidal | fluidic | fluxible | fluxile | fluxional | fluxionary | fluxive | flying | frank | gabby | garrulous | gassy | glib | going | gossipy | graceful | gregarious | gulfy | gushing | gushy | gyrational | gyratory | harmonious | juicy | liquid | liquidy | long-winded | loquacious | mazy | meandering | measured | mounting | multiloquent | multiloquious | natural | newsy | ordered | orderly | overtalkative | passing | pleasing | plunging | polished | pouring | profluent | progressive | prolix | prompt | quick | racing | ready | reflowing | refluent | regressive | retrogressive | rising | rotary | rotational | rotatory | running | runny | rushing | sappy | serpentine | sideward | sinking | slick | sluggish | smooth | smooth-sounding | smooth-spoken | soaring | sociable | streaming | succulent | surging | surgy | sweet | symmetrical | talkative | talky | tidal | tripping | up-trending | upward | verbose | vocal | voluble | vortical | watery | well-spoken | windy See Also | Fluent In Webster's Dictionary \Flu"ent\, a. [L. fluens, -entis, p. pr. of fluere to
flow; cf. Gr. ? to boil over. Cf. {Fluctuate}, {Flux}.]
1. Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily
moving.
2. Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words
at command; and uttering them with facility and
smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble;
smooth; -- said of language; as, fluent speech.
With most fluent utterance. --Denham.
Fluent as the flight of a swallow is the sultan's
letter. --De Quincey.
\Flu"ent\, n. 1. A current of water; a stream. [Obs.] 2. [Cf. F. fluente.] (Math.) A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; -- called, in the modern calculus, the {function} or {integral}. |
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