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honest

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adjective

  1. truthful; ethical; fair; not lying or cheating:

    She's an honest person.

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  2. showing uprightness and fairness; not deceitful:

    Honest dealings remain central to the corporation's core values.

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  3. gained or obtained fairly:

    honest wealth.

  4. He has an honest face.

    Give me your honest opinion.

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  5. genuine or unadulterated:

    honest commodities.

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  6. respectable; having a good reputation:

    an honest name.

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  7. reliable in accuracy or truth; true; just:

    honest weights.

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  8. humble, plain, or unadorned.
  9. Archaic. chaste; virtuous.


honest

/ ˈɒɪ /

adjective

  1. not given to lying, cheating, stealing, etc; trustworthy
  2. not false or misleading; genuine
  3. just or fair

    honest wages

  4. characterized by sincerity and candour

    an honest appraisal

  5. without pretensions or artificial traits

    honest farmers

  6. archaic.
    (of a woman) respectable
  7. honest broker
    a mediator in disputes, esp international ones
  8. honest Injun slang:school.
    interjection genuinely, really
  9. honest to God or honest to goodness
    1. adjective completely authentic
    2. interjection an expression of affirmation or surprise
  10. make an honest woman of
    to marry (a woman, esp one who is pregnant) to prevent scandal
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Derived Forms

  • ˈDzԱٲԱ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • Dz··Ա noun
  • ··Dz· adjective
  • ··Dz··ly adverb
  • o·ver·Dz··Ա noun
  • ܲ·-Dz· adjective
  • ܲ·-Dz··ly adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of honest1

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English honeste, from Middle French, from Latin honestus “honorable,” equivalent to hones- (variant stem of Dzō ) honor + -tus adjective suffix
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of honest1

C13: from Old French honeste, from Latin honestus distinguished, from Dzō honour
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Idioms and Phrases

  • come by (honestly)
  • open (honest) and aboveboard
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“To be honest, I feel like for her being younger, I think she is a little bit smarter than I am, too. She’s genuinely one of the smartest basketball players I’ve ever been around.”

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His reasons for his regular streams were the same as why he agreed to the documentary: to offer his most honest version and let people judge.

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"I felt on top of the world if I'm being honest, because I had never had that feeling of anything doing that to me," Davie said.

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My head is not exactly convinced that will happen, if I am being entirely honest, even though Wolves' best player Matheus Cunha is still out suspended.

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If I can be honest, Trump's got all the money.

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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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