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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Manifesting honesty and directness, especially in speech: candid, direct, downright, forthright, frank, honest, ingenuous, man-to-man, open, plainspoken, straight, straightforward, straight-out. Informal : straight-from-the-shoulder, straight-shooting. See CLEAR, SHOW. 2. Having no reservations: absolute, implicit, unconditional, undoubting, unfaltering, unhesitating, unquestioning, wholehearted. See BIG, LIMITED. 3. Disposed to be open, sociable, and talkative: communicable, communicative, expansive, extraverted, extroverted, gregarious, outgoing. See ATTITUDE. 4. Without limitations or mitigating conditions: absolute, unconditional, unconditioned, unqualified. See LIMITED. 5. Not spoken for or occupied: free, open, uninhabited, unoccupied. See OWNED. 6. Completely such, without qualification or exception: absolute, all-out, arrant, complete, consummate, crashing, damned, dead, downright, flat, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plain, pure, sheer2, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unbounded, unequivocal, unlimited, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, utter2. Informal : flat-out, positive. Chiefly British : blooming. See BIG, LIMITED.
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