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honest

adj
/ˈɒn.ɪst/UK/ˈɑ.nɪst/US/ˈɒn.ɪst/CA/ˈɔn.ɪst/

Etymology

From Middle English honest, honeste (“honourable, appropriate, excellent”), from Old French honeste, from Latin honestus, from honor. For the verb, see Latin honestāre (“to clothe or adorn with honour”), and compare French honester. Displaced native Old English sōþfæst (literally “truth-firm”).

  1. inherited from sōþfæst
  2. derived from honestus
  3. derived from honeste
  4. inherited from honest

Definitions

  1. Scrupulous with regard to telling the truth

    Scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright.

    • brutally honest
    • We’re the most honest people you will ever come across.
    • A true and honest physician is excused for leaving his patient, when he finds the disease grown desperate

  2. True, especially as far as is known by the person making the statement

    True, especially as far as is known by the person making the statement; fair; unbiased.

    • an honest account of events
    • honest reporting

  3. In good faith

    In good faith; without malice.

    • an honest mistake
  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. Accurate.

      • an honest scale

    2. Authentic

      Authentic; full.

      • an honest day's work

    3. Earned or acquired in a fair manner.

      • an honest dollar

    4. Open

      Open; frank.

      • an honest countenance

    5. Decent

      Decent; honourable; suitable; becoming.

      • Behold what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching!
      • […] Vpon the verge of the Riuer there are fiue houſes, wherein liue the honeſter ſort of people, as Farmers in England, and they keepe continuall centinell for the townes ſecuritie.

    6. Chaste

      Chaste; faithful; virtuous.

      • Wives may be merry, and yet honest too.

    7. To adorn or grace

      To adorn or grace; to honour; to make becoming, appropriate, or honourable.

      • You have very much honested my lodging with your presence.

    8. Honestly

      Honestly; really.

      • It wasn’t my fault, honest.

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Derived

God honest truth, God's honest truth, honest as the day, honest broker, honest comment, honest Indian, honest injun, honest John, honestly, honest mistake, honestness, honest-to-God, honest to God, honest to gods, honest-to-gods, honest-to-goodness, honest to goodness, honest-to-Hannah, honest to Pete, honesty, if I'm honest, in my honest opinion, keep someone honest, locks only keep honest people honest, make an honest woman, overhonest, to be honest, Tukey's honest significance test, turn an honest penny, underhonest, unhonest

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at honest. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01honest02fraud03undeserved04unfair05fair06innocent07responsibility08culpable09guilty10dishonest

A definitional loop anchored at honest. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at honest

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA