honest

adj

1. upright, upstanding, incorruptible, uncorrupt, uncorrupted; ethical, moral, principled, high-principled, high-minded; truthful, veracious, veridical, truth-telling, truth-speaking, truth-dealing, truth-loving; trustworthy, Inf. trusty, to be trusted, responsible, reliable, dependable, tried and true, to be depended or relied upon, to be counted on, as good as one's word, honest as the day is long; loyal, faithful, staunch, steadfast, true, truehearted, true-blue.

2. honorable, worthy, right, decent, good, Sl. white; just, fair, impartial, equitable, objective, balanced, disinterested, dispassionate, even, even-handed, Inf. level; straight, square, fair and square, square-dealing, plain-dealing, square-shooting, straight-shooting; unbiased, nonbiased, unprejudiced, nonprejudiced, nonprejudicial, unprepossessed, unjaundiced, open-minded; uninfluenced, unbought, unbribed, unswayed.

3. legitimate, valid, sound; rightful, proper, lawful, licit, legal.

4. open, open and sincere, open-hearted, ingenuous, guileless, artless, genuine, sincere, undeceptive, unde-ceitful, undeceiving, unfeigning, undissembling, undissimulating; aboveboard, open and aboveboard, up front, out front, up and up, on the up and up, on the level, no-nonsense; natural, uncontrived, unaffected, unassumed.

5. candid, frank, forthright, foursquare, direct, straightforward, straight-from-the-shoulder, man-toman, heart-to-heart; plain, plain-spoken, plain-speaking, downright, outright, explicit, unequivocal, unambiguous, undisguised, undisguising, Inf. straight-out, Inf. flat-footed, Inf. matter-of-fact; outspoken, free-spoken, free-speaking, free-tongued, unreticent, free, bold, unreserved, unrestrained, unconstrained, unchecked, uncurbed, unabashed, uninhibited, unshrinking; blunt, bluff, brusque, brash, tactless.

6. genuine, authentic, real, true-to-claims, sterling, bona fide, Australian. dinkum, Inf. honest-to-God, Inf. card-carrying, Sl. sure-enough; inartificial, unsyn- thetic, unsimulated, unfeigned, undisguised, Inf. unfaked; unadulterated, unalloyed, undiluted, untainted, unmixed, uncut, undistorted, (of measures) full.

7. respectable, reputable, creditable, estimable, highly respectable, straight-arrow; law-abiding, law-loving; virtuous, righteous, uprighteous; chaste, sinless, spotless, pure, immaculate, unblemished, unstained, unspotted, unsullied, untarnished, undefiled, unsmir-ched.

8. believable, credible; conceivable, plausible, colorable, specious.

9. humble, modest, simple, unassuming, unpretentious, unpretending, unpresumptuous, unpresuming; plain, unadorned, undecorated, unornamented, ungar-nished, unvarnished, unembellished.