Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not fluent; unready in speech.
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- adjective Not
fluent .
Etymologies
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un- + fluent
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Examples
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Always unfluent of speech, he stopped abruptly, while a wheel of thought whirred round so swiftly in his brain that he only caught a blurred impression.
Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse
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Mexican journalists to read to them in newly acquired but not unfluent Spanish a statement of his gratification at the announcement by the New York Investigating Committee, headed by
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When you’re all hanging out and chatting, particularly if in a noisy environment like a pub, it requires so much concentration to understand someone with an accent and slightly unfluent English, that they end up sitting quietly in a corner.
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