fluent.

Able to speak, write, or perform with smooth ease and little interruption.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• fluent speech
• a fluent writer
• fluent in a language

On the page

Her fluent account hid the moments she had never understood.

He was fluent in the language but unfamiliar with the village’s idioms.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more fluent; superlative most fluent where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.