honest
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Adjective (6)
- not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent; marked by truth“honest lawyers”“honest reporting”“gave honest answers”“honest reporting”Synonyms: honorableOpposite dishonestSimilar downrightSee also direct, genuine, truthful, honorable, ingenuous, sincere +3 more
- without dissimulation; frank“my honest opinion”Opposite insincereSimilar sincere
- worthy of being depended on“a dependable worker”“an honest working stiff”“a reliable source of information”“he was true to his word”“I would be true for there are those who trust me”Synonyms: dependablereliabletrueOpposite untrustworthySimilar trustworthy, trusty
- without pretensions“worked at an honest trade”“good honest food”Opposite pretentiousSimilar unpretentious
- not forged“a good dollar bill”Synonyms: goodOpposite counterfeitSimilar genuine, echt
- gained or earned without cheating or stealing“an honest wage”“a fair penny”Synonyms: fairOpposite inequitableSimilar equitable, just
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Translations
Adjective scrupulous with regard to telling the truth
- Spanish
- honesto
- French
- honnête
- German
- ehrlich
- Italian
- onesto
- Portuguese
- honesto
- Turkish
- dürüst
- Russian
- че́стный čéstnyj
- Arabic
- صَادِق ṣādiq
- Chinese
- 诚实 chéngshí
- Japanese
- 正直 shōjiki
25 more languages
- Dutch
- eerlijk
- Polish
- uczciwy
- Swedish
- ärlig
- Greek
- τίμιος tímios
- Korean
- 정직하다 jeongjikhada
- Indonesian
- jujur
- Vietnamese
- thành thật
- Hungarian
- becsületes
- Portuguese (PT)
- honesto
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 誠實 chéngshí
- Catalan
- honest
- Czech
- poctivý
- Danish
- ærlig
- Esperanto
- honesta
- Estonian
- aus
- Finnish
- rehellinen
- Georgian
- პატიოსანი ṗaṭiosani
- Hebrew
- כנה kené
- Icelandic
- heiðarlegur
- Norwegian
- ærlig
- Romanian
- onest
- Scottish Gaelic
- ionraic
- Serbo-Croatian
- čestit
- Welsh
- gonest
- Yiddish
- ערלעך erlekh
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. honest, onest, OF. honeste, oneste, F. honnête, L. honestus, fr. honos, honor, honor. See Honor.
1. Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming. Geoffrey Chaucer
Belong what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching!— William Shakespeare
2. Characterized by integrity or fairness and straightforwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.; upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere; free from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; — said of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral quality is imputed; as, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business; an honest book; an honest confession.
An honest man's the noblest work of God.— Alexander Pope
An honest physician leaves his patient when he can contribute no farther to his health.— Sir William Temple
Look ye out among you seven men of honest report.— Acts vi. 3.
Provide things honest in the sight of all men.— Rom. xii. 17.
3. Open; frank; as, an honest countenance.
4. Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
Wives may be merry, and yet honest too.— William Shakespeare
Synonyms: Upright; ingenuous; honorable; trusty; faithful; equitable; fair; just; rightful; sincere; frank; candid; genuine.
Origin: L. honestare to clothe or adorn with honor: cf. F. honester. See Honest, adjective
To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable. obsolete Abp. Edwin Sandys
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54