fluent

That flows; flowing, liquid.

Adjective

  1. That flows; flowing, liquid.
    • fluent handwriting
    • For time is a fleeting thing, and which appeareth as in a shadow, with the matter ever gliding, alwaies fluent, without ever being stable or permanent[…]. - 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio,...
  2. Able to use a language accurately, rapidly, and confidently.
    • She's fluent in French.
    • The clerk had, I'm afraid, a shrew of a wife—shrill, vehement, and fluent. - 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
  3. Being or relating to a fluent interface.
    • The payment processor offers a fluent API.

Origin

From Latin fluens (“flowing”), present active participle of fluō (“to flow”).

Forms

more fluent most fluent

Synonyms

fluid runny

Antonyms

laborious

Related

fluency fluently

Derived

disfluent dysfluent fluent interface fluentness hyperfluent nonfluent overfluent socially fluent subfluent transfluent

Noun

  1. A continuous variable, especially one with respect to time in Newton's Method of Fluxions.

Forms

fluents