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honest
[ on-ist ]
adjective
She's an honest person.
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- showing uprightness and fairness; not deceitful:
Honest dealings remain central to the corporation's core values.
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- gained or obtained fairly:
honest wealth.
He has an honest face.
Give me your honest opinion.
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- genuine or unadulterated:
honest commodities.
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- respectable; having a good reputation:
an honest name.
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honest weights.
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- humble, plain, or unadorned.
- Archaic. chaste; virtuous.
honest
/ ˈɒɪ /
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 brokera mediator in disputes, esp international ones
- honest Injun slang:school.interjection genuinely, really
- honest to God or honest to goodness
- adjective completely authentic
- interjection an expression of affirmation or surprise
- make an honest woman ofto marry (a woman, esp one who is pregnant) to prevent scandal
Derived Forms
- ˈDzԱٲԱ, noun
Other Word Forms
- Dz··Ա noun
- ··Dz· adjective
- ··Dz··ly adverb
- o·ver·Dz··Ա noun
- ܲ·-Dz· adjective
- ܲ·-Dz··ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of honest1
Idioms and Phrases
- come by (honestly)
- open (honest) and aboveboard
Example Sentences
Through Joe’s raw inner monologue, "You" challenged us to empathize with a man fighting a losing battle with his sanity, and confronted the reality of being open and honest with destructive thoughts.
And from my perspective, sometimes I could be honest about how I really feel.
But it’s leagues more narratively expansive and honest — and more personally galvanizing — now that I feel like a background extra in Lucas’ universe.
“And then to be honest about the dishonesty, if we were really looking at a QB at 26, we’d probably say an answer like that because you’re maybe hoping they would fall.”
It described Will Styles' self-assessment report as honest and was consistent with their findings at the inspection, and a two-year improvement plan was now being developed.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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