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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
“But Bill felt he lost the independence that honest journalism requires.”
"To be honest, it wasn't until the end of 2024 where it was just like my glands swelled up. My neck swelled up. Now, that was major telling sign," she said.
"It's bad but, to be honest with you, what the doctors say and what I do is two different things," she said.
I know when I’m being honest and when I’m not being honest, and usually, when I’m “big,” it’s not honest.
"I've been without work for 15 months now, and to be honest, I'm not just looking for work with my degrees now. I'm trying to get whatever I can for the time being."
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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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