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honest
[ on-ist ]
adjective
She's an honest person.
Synonyms: scrupulous, principled, moral, incorruptible, good, ethical, conscientious, veracious, truthful, trustworthy, just, honorable, fair
Antonyms: unconscionable, immoral, dishonest, corrupt, untruthful, mendacious, lying, dishonorable, unscrupulous, unprincipled, unethical
- showing uprightness and fairness; not deceitful:
Honest dealings remain central to the corporation's core values.
Synonyms: upright
- gained or obtained fairly:
honest wealth.
He has an honest face.
Give me your honest opinion.
Synonyms: unaffected, sincere, simple, natural, ingenuous, guileless, genuine, artless, up-front, unreserved, unguarded, straightforward, straight, plain-spoken, plain, outspoken, out-front, open-hearted, open, free-hearted, free-spoken, frank, foursquare, forthright, forthcoming, direct, candid, aboveboard
Antonyms: phony, insincere, guileful, disingenuous, artificial, artful, affected
- genuine or unadulterated:
honest commodities.
Synonyms: unadulterated, pure, true, sure-enough, real, genuine, echt, bona fide, authentic, actual
- respectable; having a good reputation:
an honest name.
Synonyms: reputable, estimable
Antonyms: disreputable
honest weights.
Synonyms: reliable, precise, faithful, exact, accurate, trusty
Antonyms: unreliable
- humble, plain, or unadorned.
- Archaic. chaste; virtuous.
honest
/ ˈɒnɪst /
adjective
- not given to lying, cheating, stealing, etc; trustworthy
- not false or misleading; genuine
- just or fair
honest wages
- characterized by sincerity and candour
an honest appraisal
- without pretensions or artificial traits
honest farmers
- archaic.(of a woman) respectable
- honest brokerhonest broker a mediator in disputes, esp international ones
- honest Injun slang:school.honest Injun interjection genuinely, really
- honest to Godhonest to Godhonest to goodness
- adjective completely authentic
- interjection an expression of affirmation or surprise
- make an honest woman ofmake an honest woman of to marry (a woman, esp one who is pregnant) to prevent scandal
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Derived Forms
- ˈhonestness, noun
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Other Words From
- hon·est·ness noun
- o·ver·hon·est adjective
- o·ver·hon·est·ly adverb
- o·ver·hon·est·ness noun
- qua·si-hon·est adjective
- qua·si-hon·est·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of honest1
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Idioms and Phrases
- come by (honestly)
- open (honest) and aboveboard
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Example Sentences
What matters is being honest, humble, and a faithful and loyal friend, father and member of your community.
The Times of Israel even applauded Netanyahu for finally being honest about his views on the issue of Palestine.
To be honest, I think a lot of good essay writing comes out of that.
There is a brutally honest section of the book about how you fell out of love with your wife, and essentially chose soccer.
So I’m sitting with my daughter and all of her friends—who are 13—and she says ‘Dad, can I be honest with you?
With childlike confidence he follows the advice of some more or less honest dealer.
Sometimes necessity makes an honest man a knave: and a rich man a honest man, because he has no occasion to be a knave.
They will reach you by the hands of Mr. Mackenzie, a worldly-minded Scotch merchant, but honest as to earthly things.
If they are still Moderns and alive, I defy you to bury them if you are discussing living questions in a full and honest way.
A world that has known five years of fighting has lost its taste for the honest drudgery of work.
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