Usually means: Direct and outspoken; straightforward; honest.
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  1. forthright: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. forthright: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. forthright: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. forthright: Collins English Dictionary
  5. forthright: Vocabulary.com
  6. Forthright, forthright: Wordnik
  7. forthright: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. forthright: Wiktionary
  9. forthright: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. forthright: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. forthright: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Forthright, forthright: Dictionary.com
  13. forthright: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Forthright: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. forthright: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. forthright: Rhymezone
  17. forthright: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. forthright: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. forthright: Free Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Straightforward; not evasive; candid and direct.
adjective:  Frank, outspoken.
adjective:  Markedly simple.
adjective:  Fixed; settled; decided.
adjective:  (archaic) Proceeding straight forth.
noun:  (archaic) A straight path.
adverb:  Expressly, frankly, unhesitatingly.
adverb:  At once, forthwith.
adverb:  Swiftly.
adverb:  (archaic) Straight forward, in a straight direction.

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