Honest

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  • adjective. Marked by or displaying integrity; upright.
  • adjective. Not deceptive or fraudulent; genuine.
  • adjective. Equitable; fair.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Characterized by truth; not false.
  • adjective. Sincere; frank.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Of good repute; respectable.
  • adjective. Without affectation; plain.
  • adjective. Virtuous; chaste.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having a sense of honor; having honorable feelings, motives, or principles; free from deceit or hypocrisy; true, candid, upright, or just in speech and action; fair in dealing, or sincere in utterance; worthy to be trusted.
  • Specifically— Having the virtue of chastity; chaste; virtuous: said of a woman.
  • Having no disposition to cheat, steal, or lie.
  • Characterized by or proceeding from honorable motives or principles; marked by truth, justice, sincerity, fairness, etc.: as, an honest transaction; honest opinions or motives; an honest effort.
  • Of honorable quality; creditable; reputable; proper; becoming: as, a man of honest report.
  • Excellent in quality; good.
  • Of honorable appearance; fair-seeming; having the semblance of truthfulness, fairness, etc.
  • Open; undisguised; boldly or frankly showing purpose, character, or quality, whether good or bad: as, the honest pursuit of pleasure or gain; an honest rogue.
  • Synonyms and Conscientious, trust-worthy, trusty, frank.
  • To do honor to; grace; adorn.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable.
  • adjective. Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming.
  • adjective. 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
  • adjective. Open; frank.
  • adjective. Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright.
  • adjective. True, especially as far as is known by the person making the statement; fair; unbiased.
  • adjective. In good faith; without malice.
  • adjective. Accurate.
  • adjective. Authentic; full.
  • adjective. Earned or acquired in a fair manner.
  • verb. To adorn or grace; to honour; to make becoming, appropriate, or honourable.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. without dissimulation; frank
  • adjective. not forged
  • adjective. gained or earned without cheating or stealing
  • adjective. not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent
  • adjective. worthy of being depended on
  • adjective. without pretensions
  • adjective. marked by truth
  • Word Usage
    "’ My conscience says, ‘No; take heed, honest Launcelot; take heed, honest Gobbo; ’ or, as aforesaid, ‘honest Launcelot Gobbo; do not run; scorn running with thy heels."
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    dishonest  
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    downright  echt  equitable  genuine  just  
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    Greek  Spanish  always  bad  beautifull  
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