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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 51Թ Forms
- Dz··Ա noun
- ··Dz· adjective
- ··Dz··ly adverb
- o·ver·Dz··Ա noun
- ܲ·-Dz· adjective
- ܲ·-Dz··ly adverb
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of honest1
Idioms and Phrases
- come by (honestly)
- open (honest) and aboveboard
Example Sentences
“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.”
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.
"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.
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.
If I can be honest, Trump's got all the money.
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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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