[syn: candid, open, heart-to-heart]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Candid \Can*did\ (k[a^]n"d[i^]d), a. [F. candide (cf. It.
candido), L. candidus white, fr. cand[=e]re to be of a
glowing white; akin to accend[e^]re, incend[e^]re, to set on
fire, Skr. chand to shine. Cf. Candle, Incense.]
1. White. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
The box receives all black; but poured from thence,
The stones came candid forth, the hue of innocence.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
2. Free from undue bias; disposed to think and judge
according to truth and justice, or without partiality or
prejudice; fair; just; impartial; as, a candid opinion.
"Candid and dispassionate men." --W. Irving.
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3. Open; frank; ingenuous; outspoken.
Syn: Fair; open; ingenuous; impartial; just; frank; artless;
unbiased; equitable.
Usage: Candid, Fair, Open, Frank, Ingenuous. A man
is fair when he puts things on a just or equitable
footing; he is candid when be looks impartially on
both sides of a subject, doing justice especially to
the motives and conduct of an opponent; he is open and
frank when he declares his sentiments without reserve;
he is ingenuous when he does this from a noble regard
for truth. Fair dealing; candid investigation; an open
temper; a frank disposition; an ingenuous answer or
declaration.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
candid
adj 1: characterized by directness in manner or speech; without
subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight
shooting"; "a blunt New England farmer"; "I gave them my
candid opinion"; "forthright criticism"; "a forthright
approach to the problem"; "tell me what you think--and
you may just as well be frank"; "it is possible to be
outspoken without being rude"; "plainspoken and to the
point"; "a point-blank accusation" [syn: blunt,
candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken,
outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-
from-the-shoulder]
2: informal or natural; especially caught off guard or
unprepared; "a candid photograph"; "a candid interview"
3: openly straightforward and direct without reserve or
secretiveness; "his candid eyes"; "an open and trusting
nature"; "a heart-to-heart talk" [syn: candid, open,
heart-to-heart]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
227 Moby Thesaurus words for "candid":
Olympian, Spartan, aboveboard, accessible, all jaw, approachable,
artless, ascetic, austere, authentic, bald, bare, bluff, blunt,
bona fide, born yesterday, broad, brusque, card-carrying, chatty,
childlike, common, commonplace, communicative, confiding,
conversable, conversational, demonstrative, detached, dinkum,
direct, disinterested, dispassionate, downright, dry, dull,
effusive, equal, equitable, expansive, explicit, extroverted, fair,
flip, fluent, following the letter, forthright, frank,
frankhearted, free, free hand, free-acting, free-going,
free-moving, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, freehanded,
gabby, garrulous, gassy, genuine, glib, good, gossipy, gregarious,
guileless, gushy, heart-to-heart, homely, homespun, honest,
honest-to-God, impartial, impersonal, impromptu, inartificial,
informal, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, just, lawful, lean,
legitimate, lifelike, literal, lofty, long-winded, loquacious,
matter-of-fact, multiloquent, multiloquious, naive, native,
natural, naturalistic, neat, neutral, newsy, objective, open,
openhearted, original, outgoing, outspoken, overtalkative, plain,
plain-speaking, plain-spoken, prolix, prosaic, prosing, prosy,
pure, real, realistic, rightful, round, rustic, scrupulous,
self-revealing, self-revelatory, selfless, severe, simon-pure,
simple, simple-speaking, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere,
single-hearted, single-minded, smooth, sober, sociable, spare,
stark, sterling, straight, straight-out, straightforward,
sure-enough, talkative, talky, transparent, true to life,
true to nature, true to reality, trustful, trusting, truthful,
unadorned, unadulterated, unaffected, unartificial, unassumed,
unassuming, unbiased, unbigoted, uncalculated, uncalculating,
unchecked, uncolored, unconcealed, unconcocted, unconstrained,
uncontrived, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undeceitful, undeceiving,
undisguised, undisguising, undissembled, undissembling,
undistorted, unequivocal, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful,
unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unguarded,
unhampered, unimaginative, unimagined, unimitated, uninfluenced,
uninvented, unpoetical, unprejudiced, unpremeditated, unpretended,
unpretending, unpretentious, unqualified, unrepressed, unreserved,
unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unromantic, unsecretive,
unselfish, unshrinking, unsilent, unsimulated, unsophisticated,
unspecious, unsuppressed, unsuspicious, unswayed, unsynthetic,
unvarnished, unwary, upright, verbal, verbatim, verbose, veridical,
verisimilar, voluble, windy, word-for-word