Fluent

English

Adjective

Fluent (comparative more Fluent, superlative most Fluent)

1. (linguistics) Able to speak a language accurately, rapidly, and confidently – in a flowing way.

Adverbs for Fluent

amazingly; surprisingly; admirably; consistently; enviably; gracefully; readily; naturally; habitually; easily; felicitously; rhythmically; delightfully; wonderfully; strikingly; splendidly; eloquently; impressively.

Synonyms for Fluent

flowing, liquid, moving, changing, changeable, voluble, glib, easy, smooth, ready, apt, expert, copious, prepared.

Antonyms for Fluent

slow, hesitant, stuttering, stammering, dull, prosy, unprepared, firm, heavy, dilatory, sluggish, still, motionless, inactive.

Thesaurus

polished, pouring, profluent, progressive, prolix, prompt, quick, racing, ready, reflowing, refluent, regressive, retrogressive, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, runny, rushing, sappy, serpentine, sideward, sinking, slick, sluggish, smooth, smooth-sounding, smooth-spoken, soaring, sociable, streaming, succulent, surging, surgy, sweet, symmetrical, talkative, talky, tidal, tripping, up-trending, upward, verbose, vocal, voluble, vortical, watery, well-spoken, windy, affluent, all jaw, apt, articulate, ascending, axial, back, back-flowing, backward, balanced, candid, chatty, communicative, concinnate, concinnous, confluent, conversational, coursing, cursive, decurrent, defluent, descending, diffluent, down-trending, downward, drifting, easy, effortless, effusive, elegant, eloquent, euphonic, euphonical, euphonious, expansive, expressive, facile, felicitous, flip, flowing, fluid, fluidal, fluidic, fluxible, fluxile, fluxional, fluxionary, fluxive, flying, frank, gabby, garrulous, gassy, glib, going, gossipy, graceful, gregarious, gulfy, gushing, gushy, gyrational, gyratory, harmonious, juicy, liquid, liquidy, long-winded, loquacious, mazy, meandering, measured, mounting, multiloquent, multiloquious, natural, newsy, ordered, orderly, overtalkative, passing, pleasing, plunging,

Etymology

Latin fluens (“flowing”)

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ʊənt

Related terms

• fluency
• fluently

Notes

In casual use, “fluency” refers to language proficiency broadly, while in narrow use it refers to speaking a language flowingly, rather than haltingly.

Translations

able to speak a language accurately and confidently

Arabic: طلق (ar) (Taliq) Chinese: Mandarin: 流利 (cmn) (liúlì), 滔滔 (cmn) (tāotāo), 暢達 (cmn), 畅达 (cmn) (chàngdá) Min Nan: trad. 輾轉, simpl. 辗转 (lián-tńg) Czech: plynulý (cs) m., plynný (cs) m. Danish: flydende (da) Dutch: vloeiend (nl) Esperanto: flua (eo) Finnish: sujuva (fi) French: courant (fr) m., courante (fr) f. German: fließend (de) Greek: ρευστός (el) m., ρευστή (el) f., ρευστό (el) n. Hebrew: משוטף (he) (mishutaf)

Hungarian: folyékony (hu) Icelandic: reiprennandi (is), altalandi (is) Indonesian: fasih, lancar Italian: fluente (it) m. and f. Japanese: ぺらぺら (ja) (perapera), 流暢な (ja) (りゅうちょうな, ryūchō-na), すらすら (ja) (surasura) Polish: płynny (pl), biegły (pl) Portuguese: fluente (pt) m. and f. Russian: беглый (ru) (béglyj), свободный (ru) (svobódnyj) Scottish Gaelic: siùbhlach (gd) Serbian: tečan (sr) Slovene: tekoče Spanish: fluido (es) m. Swedish: flytande (sv) Welsh: rhugl (cy)

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Latin

Verb

fluent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of fluō