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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 yvlog Forms
- Dz··Ա noun
- ··Dz· adjective
- ··Dz··ly adverb
- o·ver·Dz··Ա noun
- ܲ·-Dz· adjective
- ܲ·-Dz··ly adverb
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of honest1
Idioms and Phrases
- come by (honestly)
- open (honest) and aboveboard
Example Sentences
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.
The parents draw strength from friends, family, their Christian faith and the knowledge that their daughter was an honest person who always tried to do the right thing.
The way that I approach the music has always been an open and honest conversation.
“Someone who is honest and works to the bone like Scott, I want him on my team.”
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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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