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[ floo -uh nt ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈflu ənt / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective spoken or written with ease:fluent French.
able to speak or write smoothly, easily, or readily: a fluent speaker; fluent in six languages.
easy; graceful: fluent motion; fluent curves.
flowing, as a stream.
capable of flowing; fluid, as liquids or gases.
easily changed or adapted; pliant.
Origin of fluent 1580–90; from Latin fluent- (stem of fluēns ) “flowing,” present participle of fluere; see -ent
synonym study for fluent 1, 2 . Fluent, glib, voluble may refer to a flow of words. Fluent suggests the easy and ready flow of an accomplished speaker and is usually a term of commendation: a fluent and interesting speech. Glib implies an excessive fluency divorced from sincerity or profundity; it often suggests talking smoothly and hurriedly to cover up or deceive, not giving the hearer a chance to stop and think; it may also imply a plausible, prepared, and well-rehearsed lie: He had a glib answer for everything. Voluble implies the overcopious and often rapid flow of words characteristic of a person who loves to talk: She overwhelmed him with her voluble answer. See also eloquent.
OTHER WORDS FROM fluent flu·en·cy, flu·ent·ness, noun flu·ent·ly, adverb non·flu·en·cy, noun non·flu·ent, adjective
non·flu·ent·ly, adverb non·flu·ent·ness, noun o·ver·flu·en·cy, noun o·ver·flu·ent, adjective o·ver·flu·ent·ly, adverb o·ver·flu·ent·ness, noun trans·flu·ent, adjective un·flu·ent, adjective un·flu·ent·ly, adverb
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Words nearby fluent flue, flue-cure, flue gas, fluellen, fluency, fluent , flue pipe, fluerics, flue stop, fluey, fluff
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Example sentences from the Web for fluent Best of all, in my quest to get more fluent , I’m making lots of interesting new friends to share with all of you.
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He was fluent in the language of the merchant, and many of his interlocutors were craftsmen and small business owners.
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Thanks to BLANC, Primer was able to train a summarization tool that can generate pretty fluent summaries.
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To work at Rizzoli you had to be fluent in several languages: three was the minimum when I began.
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As fluent in drug trade jargon as Martian, Future peppers his lyrics with interstellar imagery befitting of his far out vocals.
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A more recent phenomenon in the political universe is politicians of Hispanic heritage who are not fluent in Spanish.
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The Telegraph reports that he is fluent in Swahili and a keen zoologist.
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Despite name ID and fluent Spanish (there was a sizable Hispanic population in the area), he lost by a sliver.
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That universe is fluid and fluent ; its contents dissolve and re-form with amazing rapidity.
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This the Mexican did, translating the Spanish paragraphs into English with fluent ease, ending by reading the list of witnesses.
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Mr. Graham is a fluent and ingenious rhymester, with an alert mind and a well-controlled sense of humour.'
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She was a fluent conversationalist, and careful and tidy in her personal appearance.
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I take it then from your remark that you yourself are not fluent in Russian?
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British Dictionary definitions for fluent adjective able to speak or write a specified foreign language with facility
spoken or written with facility his French is fluent
easy and graceful in motion or shape
flowing or able to flow freely
Derived forms of fluent fluently , adverb Word Origin for fluent C16: from Latin: flowing, from fluere to flow
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