fluent
fluent is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 2.A current of water; a stream. [Obs.]
- 3.Etym: [Cf. F. fluente.] (Math.) A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; - - called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- academical
- antithesis
- artistic
- blood
- chaste
- chyle
- classical
- classicalism
- classicism
- concinnity
- condense
- correct
- ease
- easy
- elegance
- elegant
- euphemism
- euphemistic
- euphonious
- euphony
- felicitous
- flow
- flowing
- fluid
- fluidity
- gaseity
- grace
- graceful
- gravy
- happy
- humor
- hydrodynamics
- hydrology
- hydrostatics
- ichor
- ichorous
- inelastic
- juice
- juicy
- liquefy
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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