Synonyms of the word

candid

• adj. Impartial and free from prejudice.
• adj. Straightforward, open and sincere.
• adj. Not posed or rehearsed.
• n. A spontaneous or unposed photograph.

artless

• adj. Having or displaying no guile, cunning, or deceit.
• adj. Free of artificiality; natural.
• adj. Lacking art, knowledge, or skill; uncultured and ignorant.
• adj. Poorly made or done; crude.

blunt

• adj. Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
• adj. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
• adj. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
• adj. Hard to impress or penetrate.
• adj. Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
• n. A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
• n. A short needle with a strong point.
• n. (smoking) A marijuana cigar.
• n. (Britain, slang, archaic, uncountable) money.
• n. A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
• v. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
• v. (figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of.

direct

• adj. Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
• adj. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
• adj. Straightforward; sincere.
• adj. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
• adj. In the line of descent; not collateral.
• adj. (astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the…
• adj. (political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes…
• adj. (aviation, travel) having a single flight number.
• adv. Directly.
• v. To manage, control, steer.
• v. To aim (something) at (something else).
• v. To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
• v. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
• v. (dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom…

forthright

• adj. straightforward; not evasive; candid and direct.

frank

• adj. honest, especially in an manner that seems slightly blunt; candid; not reserved or disguised.
• adj. (medicine) unmistakable, clinically obvious, self-evident.
• adj. (obsolete) Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free.
• adj. (obsolete) Liberal; generous; profuse.
• adj. (obsolete, derogatory) Unrestrained; loose; licentious.
• n. (uncountable) Free postage, a right exercised by governments (usually with definite article).
• n. (countable) The notice on an envelope where a stamp would normally be found.
• v. To place a frank on an envelope.
• v. To exempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc.
• v. To send by public conveyance free of expense.
• n. A hot dog or sausage.
• n. (Britain) the grey heron.
• n. A pigsty.
• v. To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten.

free-spoken

• adj. Characterized by direct and open expression of views, feelings, etc.

ingenuous

• adj. Naive and trusting.
• adj. Demonstrating childlike simplicity.
• adj. Unsophisticated; simple.
• adj. Unable to mask one's feelings.
• adj. Straightforward, candid, open, and frank.

open

• adj. (not comparable) not closed; accessible; unimpeded.
• adj. Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded.
• adj. (not comparable) Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
• adj. (comparable) Receptive.
• adj. (not comparable) Public.
• adj. (not comparable) Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
• adj. (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Having a free variable.
• adj. (graph theory, of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are different.
• adj. (computing, not comparable, of a file, document, etc.) In current use; mapped to part of memory.
• adj. (business) Not fulfilled.
• adj. Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
• adj. (music, stringed instruments) Without any fingers pressing the string against the fingerboard.
• adj. Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty…
• adj. (phonetics) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
• adj. (phonetics) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
• adj. (phonetics, of a syllable) That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
• adj. (computing) Made public, usable with a free licence.
• adj. (medicine) Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects…
• v. (transitive) To make something accessible or remove an obstacle to its being accessible.
• v. (transitive) To bring up (a topic).
• v. (transitive) To make accessible to customers or clients.
• v. (transitive) To start (a campaign).
• v. (intransitive) To become open.
• v. (intransitive) To begin conducting business.
• v. To enter upon; to begin.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
• v. (intransitive, poker) To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, poker) To reveal one's hand.
• v. (computing, transitive, intransitive, of a file, document, etc.) To load into memory for viewing or editing.
• v. To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
• v. (obsolete) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.
• n. A sports event in which anybody can compete; as, the Australian Open.
• n. (electronics) a wire that is broken midway.
• n. (with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
• n. (with the) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.

outspoken

• adj. Speaking, or spoken, freely, openly, or boldly; vocal.
• v. past participle of outspeak.

plainspoken

• adj. Speaking plainly or simply.

point-blank

• adj. (forensics) very close; not touching but not more than a few metres (yards).
• adj. (ballistics) the distance between a firearm and a target where a projectile in flight is expected to strike…
• adj. Disconcertingly straightforward or blunt.
• adv. In a direct manner, without hesitation.

straight-from-the-shoulder

• adj. Alternative spelling of straight from the shoulder.

uncontrived

• adj. Not contrived.

unstudied

• adj. Free of artifice or cunning; innocent, spontaneous and unaffected.
• adj. Not gained by study.
• adj. Not studied.