outspoken
/ˈaʊtspˈoʊkən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Example Sentences
- "an outspoken man"
- "an outspoken rebuke"
- "Critics were vehemently outspoken; but while they fretted about looks, they missed the cleverer points in the design itself."
- "Transmission: An Alliance officer named Major Kyle has set up a small compound in the Hawking Eta cluster. He's attracted a number of followers. Mostly biotics. Transmission: He's become an outspoken critic of the Alliance, and we believe he's mentally unstable. This could be trouble, Shepard."
- "Safdar constantly chews a betel nut derivative, which has a stimulant effect – a common habit among drivers in Pakistan. He is outspoken and talks a million miles a minute, his rapid hand movements expressing a range of emotions."
- "The late Professor Pat White was an outspoken critic. In his 1986 book Forgotten Railways, he dismissed as smoke and mirrors the oft-used argument that 33% of rail routes carried only 1% of the traffic, as it ignores the fact that a third of the national road network also only carried 2% of cars and lorries. But unlike rail, road got away with it because no mention was made of how much it cost the taxpayer to keep them usable."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: out-
Inflected Forms
more outspoken (comparative)
most outspoken (superlative)