fluent
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flu·ent
(flū'ənt) 
adj.
fluently flu'ent·ly adv.
adj.
- Able to express oneself readily and effortlessly: a fluent speaker; fluent in three languages.
- Flowing effortlessly; polished: speaks fluent Russian; gave a fluent performance of the sonata.
- Flowing or moving smoothly; graceful: a yacht with long, fluent curves.
- Flowing or capable of flowing; fluid.
[Latin fluēns, fluent-, present participle of fluere, to flow.]
fluency flu'en·cy n.fluently flu'ent·ly adv.
Roget's Thesaurus:
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fluent
adjective
- Marked by facility, especially of expression: easy, effortless, flowing, fluid, graceful, smooth. See style/good style/bad style.
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fluent
adj
Definition: articulate
Antonyms: effortful, hesitant, illiterate, inarticulate, unfluent, unprepared
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fluently
IN BRIEF: Done in a smooth easy way.
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Fluent
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Fluent can refer to:
- fluency, in linguistics, the ability to communicate quickly.
- fluent (mathematics), in mathematics, a continuous function
- fluent (artificial intelligence), in artificial intelligence, a condition that varies over time
- Fluent, Inc., a company that develops software for computational fluid dynamics
- Fluent interface, a software engineering object-oriented construct
- Fluent (user interface), introduced in the 2007 Microsoft Office system
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Fluent
Dansk (Danish)
adj. - flydende
Nederlands (Dutch)
welbespraakt, soepel, vloeibaar, vloeiend
Français (French)
adj. - qui a la plume facile, coulant (un style), fluide (un mouvement)
Deutsch (German)
adj. - gewandt
Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - ευφραδής, στρωτός, αβίαστος ή άνετος (στο χειρισμό λόγου ή γλώσσας), εύγλωττος
Português (Portuguese)
adj. - fluente
Русский (Russian)
плавный, гладкий, свободно (говорить)
Español (Spanish)
adj. - fluente, fluyente, fluido, corriente
Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - ledig, ostadgad (bildl.)
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
流利的, 流畅的
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 流利的, 流暢的
日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 流暢な, 能弁な
n. - 変数
العربيه (Arabic)
(صفه) طليق اللسان , فصيح
עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - מדבר בשטף, רהוט
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