fluent
pronunciation
How to pronounce fluent in British English:
UK [ˈfluːənt]
How to pronounce fluent in American English:
US [ˈfluːənt]
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- Adjective:
- easy and graceful in shape
- smooth and unconstrained in movement
- expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively
Word Origin
- fluent
- fluent: see flux
- fluent (adj.)
- 1580s, "flowing freely" (of water), also, of speakers, "able and nimble in the use of words," from Latin fluentem (nominative fluens) "lax, relaxed," figuratively "flowing, fluent," present participle of fluere "to flow, stream, run, melt," from extended form of PIE root *bhleu- "to swell, well up, overflow" (cognates: Latin flumen "river;" Greek phluein "to boil over, bubble up," phlein "to abound"), an extension of root *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell;" see bole. Used interchangeably with fluid (adj.) in 17c. in the sense "changeable, not rigid." Related: Fluently.
Antonym
Example
- 1. She is fluent in spanish and conversational in french .
- 2. The school 's aim is to graduate students fluent in both languages .
- 3. Students joining its mba programme must be fluent in english and proficient in at least one other .
- 4. A fluent german-speaker , former german teacher and regular visitor across the rhine , mr ayrault is almost unknown at home .
- 5. I think my english is quite fluent .