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honest
Overview of adj honest
The adj honest has 7 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (10) honest, honorable -- (not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent; "honest lawyers"; "honest reporting"; "an honest wage"; "honest weight")
2. (5) honest -- (without dissimulation; frank; "my honest opinion")
3. (2) dependable, honest, reliable, true -- (worthy of being depended on; "a dependable worker"; "an honest working stiff"; "a reliable source of information"; "he was true to his word"; "I would be true for there are those who trust me")
4. (1) guileless, honest -- (free from guile; "his answer was simple and honest")
5. honest -- (without pretensions; "worked at an honest trade"; "good honest food")
6. veracious, honest -- (habitually speaking the truth; "an honest man"; "a veracious witness")
7. honest -- (marked by truth; "gave honest answers")
Grep of noun honest
honest woman
honestness
honesty
Antonyms of adj honest
7 senses of honest
Sense 1
honest (vs. dishonest), honorable
dishonest (vs. honest), dishonorable
=> ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued
=> beguiling
=> deceitful, fallacious, fraudulent
=> deceptive, misleading, shoddy
=> false
=> picaresque
=> rascally, roguish, scoundrelly, blackguardly
=> thieving(prenominal), thievish
Sense 2
honest
INDIRECT (VIA sincere) -> insincere
Sense 3
dependable, honest, reliable, true(predicate)
INDIRECT (VIA trustworthy) -> untrustworthy, untrusty
Sense 4
guileless, honest
INDIRECT (VIA artless) -> artful
Sense 5
honest
INDIRECT (VIA unpretentious) -> pretentious
Sense 6
veracious, honest
INDIRECT (VIA truthful) -> untruthful
Sense 7
honest
INDIRECT (VIA truthful) -> untruthful
Similarity of adj honest
7 senses of honest
Sense 1
honest (vs. dishonest), honorable
=> downright
Also See> direct#3; genuine#1, echt#1; honorable#2, honourable#1; ingenuous#1, artless#1; sincere#1; straight#6, square#2; true#1; trustworthy#1, trusty#1
Sense 2
honest
=> sincere (vs. insincere)
Sense 3
dependable, honest, reliable, true(predicate)
=> trustworthy (vs. untrustworthy), trusty
Sense 4
guileless, honest
=> artless (vs. artful)
Sense 5
honest
=> unpretentious (vs. pretentious)
Sense 6
veracious, honest
=> truthful (vs. untruthful), true
Sense 7
honest
=> truthful (vs. untruthful), true
Pertainyms of adj honest
Attributes of adj honest
Domain of adj honest
Domain Terms of adj honest
Familiarity of adj honest
honest used as an adjective is common (polysemy count =7)
Grep of adj honest
dishonest
honest
honest-to-god
honest-to-goodness
Grep of adv honest
honestly
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