forthrightness

1. 1.

   the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech

   Synonymscandorcandourcandidnessfranknessdirectness

   Broaderhonesty

   Narroweringenuousness

Other forms of forthrightness

plural

forthrightnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about forthrightness

What does forthrightness mean?

forthrightness means "the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech".

How many syllables are in forthrightness?

forthrightness has 3 syllables: for-thright-ness. The stress falls on "for". In IPA it is /ˈfɔɹˈθɹaɪtnəs/.

What is another word for forthrightness?

Close synonyms include candor, candour, candidness, frankness, directness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is forthrightness a common word?

forthrightness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.