Meaning of honest | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright.
2. sincere
3. True, especially as far as is known by the person making the statement; fair; unbiased.
4. In good faith; without malice.
5. first-person singular present indicative of sincerar
6. Accurate.
7. Authentic; full.
8. Earned or acquired in a fair manner.
9. Open; frank.
10. Decent; honourable; suitable; becoming.
    obsolete
11. Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
    obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“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”

“an honest account of events”

“honest reporting”

“an honest mistake”

“an honest scale”

“an honest day's work”

“an honest dollar”

“an honest countenance”

“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.”

“[T]here are Wolf-Whelps in Palaces, and Governments, as well as in Cottages, and Forreſts. […] They go out however, as there is Occaſion, and Hunt and Growle for Company; but at the ſame time, they give the Sign out of their Maſters hand, hold Intelligence with the Enemy; and Make uſe of their Power and Credit to Worry Honeſter Men them Themſelves.”

“Wives may be merry, and yet honest too.”

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