franker
Noun pluralfrankers
Pluralfrankers
- 1Comparative of frank: more frank.
Her memoir gives a franker account of the divorce than any of her earlier books.
By the third day the patient was showing franker signs of infection.
Note
Both comparatives are in use, franker and more frank, and this one serves both living meanings of the adjective: the candid one, as in a franker conversation, and the clinical one of plainly evident, as in franker symptoms. The same spelling is also a noun, one that franks mail, built on the verb rather than the adjective.
- 2Someone or something that franks mail.
Collectors prize envelopes signed by a famous franker, such as a sitting member of Congress.
The new franker in the mailroom handles several thousand envelopes an hour.
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franker is a form of frank
frank, adjective: Honest and open, often in a slightly blunt way, without holding back or disguising anything. Full entry
- Spelling
- frank → franker: add -er
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Origins
Formed from frank with the suffix -er.
Formed from frank with the suffix -er.