Honesty

English

Noun

Honesty (countable and uncountable; plural honesties)

1. (uncountable) The act, quality, or condition of being honest; to be truthful
2. Any of various crucifers in the genus Lunaria, several of which are grown as ornamentals.

Adjectives for Honesty

basic; unimpeachable; unquestioned; belated; savage; strict; intrinsic; childlike; shakable; tribal; crystal; rigid; sham; confirmed; intellectual; surface; apparent.

Verbs for Honesty

approve—; assert—; boast of—; conduct with—; consider—; corrupt—; depead on—; desire—; inspect—; instill—; praise—; proclaim—; require—; respect—; test—; trust —; try—; undermine—; violate—; —repays; —rewards; —shines.

Synonyms for Honesty

integrity, probity, rectitude, uprightness, honor, straight-forwardness, self-respect, trustiness, trustworthiness, confidence, responsibility, faithfulness, fairness, justice, rectitude, frankness, veracity, candor, openness, sincerity.

Antonyms for Honesty

dishonesty, duplicity, double-dealing, double-crossing, cheating, trickery, chicanery, perfidy, roguery, cajolery, fraud, deceit, artifice, theft, deception, imposition, swindle, swindling, stealing, thieving, larceny, treachery.

Derived terms

• honesty is the best policy

Thesaurus

absolute realism, artlessness, assured probity, authenticity, blamelessness, bluntness, bona fideness, candor, character, cleanness, conscientiousness, decency, dependability, directness, disinterestedness, equitableness, equity, erectness, estimableness, fairness, forthrightness, frankness, genuineness, good character, goodness, guilelessness, high ideals, high principles, high-mindedness, honor, honorableness, immaculacy, impartiality, inartificiality, incorruption, ingenuousness, integrity, irreproachability, irreproachableness, justice, justness, legitimacy, lifelikeness, literalism, literality, literalness, moral excellence, moral strength, morality, naturalism, naturalness, nobility, objectivity, openness, outspokenness, photographic realism, principles, probity, pureness, purity, realism, realness, rectitude, reliability, reputability, respectability, righteousness, scrupulousness, sincerity, stainlessness, straightforwardness, true-to-lifeness, trustworthiness, truth to nature, truthfulness, unadulteration, unaffectedness, unfictitiousness, unimpeachability, unimpeachableness, unspeciousness, unspottedness, unspuriousness, unsyntheticness, uprightness, upstandingness, veracity, verisimilitude, virtue, virtuousness, worthiness

Etymology

From Old French honesté (French: honnêteté) (honest + -y).

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈɒnəsti/, SAMPA: /"Qn@sti/
• (GenAm) IPA: /ˈɑːnəsti/, SAMPA: /"A:n@sti/

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Translations

quality of being honest

Albanian: ndershmëri f. Catalan: honradesa f., honestedat f. Chinese: Mandarin: 誠實 (cmn), 诚实 (cmn) (chéngshí) Czech: poctivost (cs) n. Danish: ærlighed (da) Dutch: eerlijkheid (nl) f. French: honnêteté (fr) f. German: Ehrlichkeit f. Greek: εντιμότητα [e̞(n)diˈmo̞tiˌta] f., τιμιότητα [timiˈo̞tiˌta] f., χρηστότητα [xriˈsto̞tiˌta] f., ευσυνειδησία [e̞fsiniðiˈsiˌa] f., ηθικότητα [iθiˈko̞tiˌta] f., ευθύτητα [e̞fˈθitiˌta] f. Italian: onestà (it) f., lealtà (it) f., correttezza (it) f.

Japanese: 正直 (ja) (しょうじき, shōjiki) Korean: 정직 (jeong-jik) Malay: sathyasandhatha Norwegian: ærlighet (no) m./f. Polish: szczerość (pl) f. Portuguese: honestidade (pt) f. Russian: честность (ru) (čéstnost') f., добросовестность (ru) (dobrosovestnost') f. Scottish Gaelic: ionracas m., onair (gd) f. Spanish: honradez (es) f., sinceridad (es) f., honestidad (es) Swedish: ärlighet (sv) c. Telugu: నిజాయితి (nijaayiti) Turkish: dürüstlük (tr)